Release Date
September 15, 2017
DVD Release Date
December 5, 2017 (Buy on Amazon)
Director
Michael Cuesta
Writer
Stephen Schiff, Michael Finch, Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz
Cast
Dylan O’Brien, Michael Keaton, Sanaa Lathan, Shiva Negar, Scott Adkins, Taylor Kitsch
Studio
Running Time
105 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated R for strong violence throughout, some torture, language and brief nudity
AMERICAN ASSASSIN follows the rise of Mitch Rapp (Dylan O’Brien) a CIA black ops recruit under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley (Michael Keaton). The pair is then enlisted by CIA Deputy Director Irene Kennedy (Sanaa Lathan) to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on both military and civilian targets. Together the three discover a pattern in the violence leading them to a joint mission with a lethal Turkish agent... Full synopsis »
MOVIE REVIEW
You can kill our soldiers. You can kill our children. But by God, terrorists, don’t you dare kill our sexy, young, bikini-clad women, because we will look for you, we will find you and we will kill you. In the moderately entertaining if generally vanilla action-thriller American Assassin, Dylan O’Brien plays the rebellious, emotionally scarred and highly skilled hero from every other similar action movie and Michael Keaton makes torture look fun. Full movie review »
