2015 · action · comedy · supernatural
American Ultra
Directed by Nima Nourizadeh1h 36m2015
Mike is an unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe, is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. In the blink of an eye, as his secret past comes back to haunt him, Mike is thrust into the middle of a deadly government operation and is forced to summon his inner action-hero in order to survive.
Our read: American Ultra (2015) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive action · comedy · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured action / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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