American Ultra

Parental Rating: R

Contains: Language    Violence    Drug Use    Adult Content    

Jill's Review

Opens August 21, 2015

Runs 95 minutes

Mike (Jesse Eisenberg) lives with his girlfriend Phoebe (Kristen Stewart) and works at the local convenience store. He spends his days in a marijuana induced haze. He is a stoner just biding his time plotting how to ask Phoebe to marry him. That is until a government operative, Victoria Lasseter (Connie Britton) arrives to prod him from his stupor and warn him that he has been targeted for extermination. You see, Mike, is a sleeper C.I.A. agent but he has no actual memory of this. Adrian Yates (Topher Grace) has taken over this department at the C.I.A and to prove his authority and wipe out all traces of the experiment that ultimately wiped Mike's memory, he has ordered Mike's death. The only problem is that Mike is actually a super agent under that stoner fog and he proves to be quite a challenge for Yates' team. Will Mike live to see another day?

This is like a stoner version of Jason Bourne. I actually liked it. I thought it was funny and oriiginal. It is very violent, but not really gruesome. The violence is almost cartoonish. I thought Jesse and Kristen were actually perfect for their roles. It was especially funny to see Connie Britton in such a physical, tough-guy role. And, Topher Grace was excellent as the evil, uppity Yates. He can throw a tantrum with the best of them. Anyway, this might not be for everyone but it made me laugh and kept me guessing enough, with a few little twists. No brain teaser, just an entertaining, fast-paced, creative movie. Worth seeing.

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