
Variety
Too often plays like an earnest yet unsatisfying adaptation of a cult graphic novel, with most of the charm lost in translation.
Full reviewJesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart reteam (after the underrated Adventureland) with this action-comedy about a couple of stoners whose lives are interrupted when a government operation descends upon their small town with the aim of wiping them out.
Pothead Mike (Eisenberg), on the verge of asking his live-in girlfriend (Stewart) to marry him, discovers he is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. 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.
LessToo often plays like an earnest yet unsatisfying adaptation of a cult graphic novel, with most of the charm lost in translation.
Full reviewArtless and unpleasant, this is the kind of late-summer swill that gives August a bad name.
Full reviewExpect a diverting summer action adventure with occasional laughs, not a diverting stoner comedy with occasional action.
Full reviewThe movie simply doesn't know if it wants to be Jason Bourne or Cheech and Chong.
Full reviewA genre mash that's mildly amusing until it can't think of anything else to do besides flop around in the deep end of conspicuous gore.
Full reviewEven though Eisenberg also shares a great rapport with Stewart... [it] just cannot hold a coherent connection to viewers when it truly must.
Full reviewCheck your brain at the popcorn-butter pump in the lobby and enjoy it.
Full reviewA potential cult item in the making, American Ultra may be an acquired taste but it's chocful of invention.
Full reviewAmerican Ultra is available to stream in New Zealand now on Apple TV.
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