American Assassin (美國刺客) is an 2017 film. The movie stars Dylan O'Brien as the main character, Mitch Rapp. The supporting cast include Michael Keaton, Sanaa Lathan, Shiva Negar, and Taylor Kitsch. The movie is based on a novel franchise featuring Mitch Rapp.
Mitch Rapp loses his girlfriend and is almost killed himself when a jihadist group attacks during his vacation in Spain. Months later, we find that Rapp has self taught himself martial arts, firearms, and spying on terrorist groups. Rapp is set on taking jihadist groups down. When he makes contact, the CIA rescues him when the deals goes bad and recruits him. After a brutal training session, he makes it to the field and finds that a rogue former CIA agent is causing all the trouble and has enough know how to stay in front of the CIA. The cat and mouse catch begins and who will come out the winner?
Very slick film. From beginning to end. But it was a little too slick. Well made, but the story was engaging enough to keep me going. But I felt like I had already seen this in other forms. I hard to call it predictable, but I felt like I kind of knew what was around the corner. With weak box office receipts, it is very doubtful it'll be a film franchise. Might need time to reboot this.
BUT, this would be a great 10 part series on a Netflix or Amazon Prime. I haven't seen all of Jack Ryan, but this seems right up the ally of that type of movie.
