American Assassin doesn’t waste any time getting into the mentality and motivations of its protagonist, Mitch Rapp (Dylan O’Brien), in its truly shocking and unsettling prologue. The sequence - which involves a sudden and terrifying terrorist attack on a resort beach - provides American Assassin with a solid emotional foundation and visceral tone that sets it up as being a well-crafted, albeit familiar, spy-based revenge thriller. For the majority of its runtime too, American Assassin manages to live up to that promise, thanks to a capable lead turn by Dylan O’Brien and some terrifically handled action sequences by director Michael Cuesta.
The biggest issue with American Assassin then is how much of that momentum and emotional underpinning it loses throughout its final act. Instead of bringing all of its characters and subplots together in a grounded and satisfying way, the film slowly unravels into the clumsy, cliche-ridden and overblown spy movie that it had previously avoided being. It swaps out its intense, personal, character-driven perspective for a much larger piece of grand spectacle that it doesn’t have the capability to deliver fully on.
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