For me, American Assassin is another movie that had I not seen the trailer, I may have enjoyed it more. The story begins on a beach with our main character, Mitch Rapp, and his soon to be fiance. But out of no where, the beach comes under attack by terrorists and his fiance is murdered right in front of him. Now, why he wasn't killed either doesn't really make sense, but if that happens, there is no movie.
Fast forward 18 months later and you can tell Mitch has a goal and one goal only...to kill the people who murdered his fiance. Little does he know the CIA have been following him around in hopes to recruit. When he accepts the "job" he is sent to Michael Keaton's character who is supposedly the best of the best.
Both Dylan O'Brien (Mitch)and Michael Keaton do good jobs in their roles respectively. There is a few twists and turns but nothing you don't see coming and the action, while limited is pretty good as well. I just hoped for a little more and I felt the ending was a bit anti climatic. The second half of this movie is Mitch's first mission with Keaton and the guy they are after isn't all what he seems to be.
This is a book series that I hadn't even heard of so I can't compare the two. But it's a decent action flick and the ending sets itself up for multiple sequels. 6.5/10
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