American Assassin Film Review

Finished watching American Assassin, directed by Michael Cuesta and starring Dylan O'Brien, Charlotte Vega, Sanaa Lathan and Michael Keaton. The film opens with Mitch Rapp (Dylan O'Brien) proposing to is girlfriend, Katrina (Charlotte Vega) while on holiday when a group of gunmen to start shooting at all of the holiday goers as Mitch sees Katrina killed before his very eyes. Months later Mitch has been talking to a terrorist group over the internet while also training himself in hand to hand combat and the use of an array of weapons. When Mitch gets an invite to meet the leader of the terrorist group he agrees in hopes to kill the leader only for a group of American solders to kill everyone in the room and take Mitch to the CIA for questioning where the deputy director of the CIA, Irene Kennedy (Sanaa Lathan) offers him a opportunity to train with former navy officer Stan Hurley (Michael Keaton) as part of a secret black ops program. Overall this was a decent film as it divides on some really well choreographed fight scenes and a couple of characters backstories. What lets the film down is the fact that some of the the character motivations and even some of the film's plot twists are feel very obvious. 6/10.