#AmericanAssassin movie starring #DylanOBrien is a flawed but entertaining spy thriller. There are many parts about it that just don't work and it's very generic especially if you're an avid political spy thriller novels reader like yours truly, so while the character, Mitch Rapp, isn't quite yet comparable to Jack Ryan, this film is a showcase of what Dylan O'Brien can do as an action star and I think it can catch on for his army of fans.
Based on Vince Flynn's novel series, Dylan O'Brien plays a CIA black ops recruit, Mitch Rapp, whose fiancé was killed by terrorists . He eventually finds himself under the training and guidance of a tough Cold War veteran Stan Hurley (Michael Keaton). CIA director Irene Kennedy (Sanaa Lathan) then sends Rapp and Hurley to investigate a wave of attacks that seem to point to a rogue operative with a connection to Hurley's past.
I think the biggest problem with "American Assassin" for me is that it feels choppy, some of the cuts and editing work that just seems like it doesn't go through that fine-tuning process. That may have been an effective strategy to design a trailer/preview but as a movie, it will just annoy you. The other big problem is how one-dimensional some of the characters are especially the Turkish agent played by Shiva Negar, the film just expects you to feel for her when there's no foundation set up to build that connection to her character.
I haven't read Vince Flynn's novels, I'm sure he was a talented writer, may he rest in peace, but the concept of rogue operative and a nuclear bomb as the end game have been played out way too many times in the spy thriller genre that it goes to what I said earlier about this film being generic, it doesn't really offer anything new or anything other than what we've seen a thousand times before. This whole thing to me is more or less a test run to see if Dylan O'Brien can graduate from a young adult franchise like "Maze Runner" and become this next big action star. And equal to that, this is also a test run to see if O'Brien's character, Mitch Rapp, can fill the void that the Jack Ryan movie franchise left behind. I think O'Brien has the potential but with "American Assassin," Mitch Rapp is off to a rocky start.
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Based on Vince Flynn's novel series, Dylan O'Brien plays a CIA black ops recruit, Mitch Rapp, whose fiancé was killed by terrorists . He eventually finds himself under the training and guidance of a tough Cold War veteran Stan Hurley (Michael Keaton). CIA director Irene Kennedy (Sanaa Lathan) then sends Rapp and Hurley to investigate a wave of attacks that seem to point to a rogue operative with a connection to Hurley's past.
I think the biggest problem with "American Assassin" for me is that it feels choppy, some of the cuts and editing work that just seems like it doesn't go through that fine-tuning process. That may have been an effective strategy to design a trailer/preview but as a movie, it will just annoy you. The other big problem is how one-dimensional some of the characters are especially the Turkish agent played by Shiva Negar, the film just expects you to feel for her when there's no foundation set up to build that connection to her character.
I haven't read Vince Flynn's novels, I'm sure he was a talented writer, may he rest in peace, but the concept of rogue operative and a nuclear bomb as the end game have been played out way too many times in the spy thriller genre that it goes to what I said earlier about this film being generic, it doesn't really offer anything new or anything other than what we've seen a thousand times before. This whole thing to me is more or less a test run to see if Dylan O'Brien can graduate from a young adult franchise like "Maze Runner" and become this next big action star. And equal to that, this is also a test run to see if O'Brien's character, Mitch Rapp, can fill the void that the Jack Ryan movie franchise left behind. I think O'Brien has the potential but with "American Assassin," Mitch Rapp is off to a rocky start.
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