2017 · action · adventure · thriller
American Assassin
Directed by Michael Cuesta1h 52m2017
Following the murder of his fiancée, Mitch Rapp trains under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley. The pair then is enlisted to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on military and civilian targets.
Our read: American Assassin (2017) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · adventure · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / adventure, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- epic-stakes
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