Rotten
It's a very August sort of movie, the kind that benefits from low, lax expectations.
Alison Willmore, BuzzFeed News
American Ultra
Everyone's getting smoked.
2015 · 1h 36m · R
Action, Comedy
Directed by
Nima Nourizadeh
Overview
Mike is an unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe, is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. In the blink of an eye, 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 in order to survive.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
43%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Nourizadeh, working with a script by Max Landis, plays Mike's bloody violence like visual guitar riffs, and approaches the martial-arts set pieces with heavily underlined wit.
Richard Brody, New Yorker
Fresh
The movie evaporates in the mind, but Stewart and Eisenberg have real movie-star chemistry.
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture
Fresh
The action-movie absurdity is still in place, but so is Landis' muddy-bloody touch: by the end, Eisenberg's face is a purple, swollen wreck, and rightly so.
Matthew Lickona, San Diego Reader
Rotten
The movie has the sleepy vibe of some of those scuzzy '90s crime thrillers. It aspires to Natural Born Killers, but has barely enough competence to get close to something like Feeling Minnesota.
Wesley Morris, Grantland
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