Variety
Too often plays like an earnest yet unsatisfying adaptation of a cult graphic novel, with most of the charm lost in translation.
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American Ultra
Jesse 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.
2015Rating: R1696 minsUSA
ActionComedy
- Director:
- Nima Nourizadeh ('Project X')
- Writer:
- Max Landis
- Cast:
- Jesse EisenbergKristen StewartTopher GraceJohn LeguizamoConnie BrittonBill PullmanTony Hale
American Ultra / Reviews
Time Out
Artless and unpleasant, this is the kind of late-summer swill that gives August a bad name.
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Expect a diverting summer action adventure with occasional laughs, not a diverting stoner comedy with occasional action.
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The Guardian
The movie simply doesn't know if it wants to be Jason Bourne or Cheech and Chong.
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Hollywood Reporter
A 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.
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Herald Sun
Even though Eisenberg also shares a great rapport with Stewart... [it] just cannot hold a coherent connection to viewers when it truly must.
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Entertainment Weekly
Check your brain at the popcorn-butter pump in the lobby and enjoy it.
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Empire Magazine
A potential cult item in the making, American Ultra may be an acquired taste but it's chocful of invention.
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