American Assassin
2017 · Movie · R · 112 min · ★ 6.4 · 40% critics
After a personal tragedy, a determined recruit begins high-stakes training with a hardened Cold War veteran. They are soon pulled into a fast-moving investigation of attacks targeting both military and civilian targets, where every lead raises the danger and pressure to keep up.
Based on American Assassin
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Details
- Years
- 2017
- Release date
- 2017-07-14
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Critic score
- 40/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.4/10 (3,258 votes)
About
If you enjoy high-pressure spy and revenge thrillers like Jason Bourne or Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, you may like this; Not for you if you want fresh originality, strong suspense, or a more complex, tightly satisfying plot.
Pros: intense action; personal revenge; notable cast | Cons: generic story beats; uneven thrills; divisive pacing
Themes
- based on novel or book
- iran
- black ops
- hand to hand combat
- international espionage
- revenge mission
- cia agent
- istanbul
- nuclear detonations
- rome
- u.s. counterintelligence
- iran’s president
- +3 more
Cast & crew
Dylan O'Brien
as Mitch Rapp
Michael Keaton
as Stan Hurley
Taylor Kitsch
as 'Ghost'
Shiva Negar
as Annika
Sanaa Lathan
as Irene Kennedy
Scott Adkins
as Victor
David Suchet
as Director Stansfield
Navid Negahban
as Minister Behurz
Joseph Long
as General Rostami
Charlotte Vega
as Katrina
Directed by Michael Cuesta