American Ultra
American Ultra
R | 21 August 2015 (USA)
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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.

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MJB784

The story was confusing, the action scenes didn't have a clear tone and I didn't laugh much. Probably the worst movie I've seen this year. Certainly the worst this summer.

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alanpgini

Very good action thrill ride, with a somewhat unique protagonist. Don't know why critics didn't like it, but I give it an 8. Its not like the plot line is unique, granted. But what were they looking for, Bullit? Citizen Kane? The flick came short of a million on covering its costs with box office, so sadly there probably wont be a sequel. Good acting performances from Eisenberg and Stewart. Its worth the watch, I don't care what anybody else says.

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dissident320

I had sort of ignored this movie. I had seen the trailers and knowing it starred the wonderfully charismatic Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart had kept me away. But it has remained on Netflix so my curiosity got the best of me.It's not terrible but perplexingly devoid of fun. Casting Jesse as a stoner sleeper agent seemed to be a opportunity for him to play against his usual type. But they never really do anything with it. He smokes pot, he does some fighting but not much. Most of the movie just plods along with a tremendous amount of exposition with other characters. Connie Britton is essentially a plot device and Topher Grace is the scrappy CIA guy trying to climb the ladder. He calls her a lot of names.This movie is quite violent which would be fine if they were going for dark comedy. But the tone comes across as just a straight up action movie. It never goes goofy enough to be a comedy or any over the top action to make it fun.Boring leads and a mostly boring plot. Topher Grace seems to be having fun but operates pretty far out of the tone of the rest of the movie. Overall this movie is bad without being bad enough to laugh at.

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dow_san

I had this film on in the background and wasn't particularly lost when I did pay attention, easy plot, not so great acting and dialogue wasn't great. Wouldn't say this is a stoner comedy and probably wouldn't call it a comedy film. Main antagonist is irritating. But if you're bored and have nothing to watch then this will do

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