American Ultra
Mike discovers that he is a trained CIA agent and he uses his newly found skills to protect himself and his girlfriend from the agency.
2 December 1959
9 April 1990, Los Angeles, California, USA
22 July 1964, Bogotá, Colombia
7 November 1964, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
17 December 1953, Hornell, New York, USA
June 11, 2016
Re-title it 'The Bong Identity;' an over the top, silly grind-house-level violent spy-spoof, played very earnestly by Eisenberg and Stewart to surprisingly good comic effect.
August 24, 2015
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.
August 21, 2015
As misfires go, American Ultra can at least claim not to be boring.
June 08, 2016
American Ultra plays like an episode of Homeland for people too stoned to process the plot of a SpongeBob SquarePants episode.
February 24, 2017
American Ultra, built upon ridiculous premise and casting, is not only the funniest but unexpectedly one of the best action movies of the summer.
November 10, 2015
It's a very August sort of movie, the kind that benefits from low, lax expectations.
August 21, 2015
The movie evaporates in the mind, but Stewart and Eisenberg have real movie-star chemistry.
August 13, 2016
American Ultra reworks The Bourne Identity as a slacker comedy with a killer punchline.
April 08, 2016
"American Ultra" improbably has more gore and fewer laughs than "American Sniper," a distinction that makes it sound a lot more compelling that it is.
August 21, 2015
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.
May 27, 2016
A loud, ugly, slapdash combination of action movie, pot comedy, criminal romance, and conspiracy thriller - and about as lumpy and ungainly as you'd imagine such a stew would be.
August 21, 2015
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.
