American Assassin

With a generic title like American Assassin, this sounds like a Chuck Norris straight-to-DVD action flick. It's only a slight upgrade.

There are 15 more novels in the Mitch Rapp series. Who will save us from American Assassin 2?

Director Michael Cuesta adds little of notice to the proceedings.

The only thing this film kills is time. I didn't believe a single moment and that's a shame because it arrives in theaters with a solid pedigree.

It's shallow and self-congratulatory, refusing to justify its incessant violence with character development or genre spectacle.

American Assassin is not what it pretends to be.

...an above-average thriller that does, at times, feel like a throwback to the 1990s’ similar-themed fare.

Acceptable for those who are less demanding, but not much more. [Full review in Spanish]

American Assassin uses Islam as a convenient shorthand for terrorism and evil, yet it's conspicuously absent in 'good' characters from Iran.

In American Assassin I was seeing all of the ingredients on the screen that could entertain, but what it amounts to is a missed opportunity.