American
Ultra is a very odd, but entertaining movie. Jesse Eisenberg plays Mike. He’s
the town stoner, who also works at the local convenience store, and his
creative outlet is drawing a cartoon series about a superhero monkey. Mike seems like a real loser who lives in a
real dump with his girlfriend but, in this movie, things are not always as they
seem. Kristen Stewart plays his
girlfriend Phoebe, but is she really his girlfriend?
It turns out
that Mike is a “sleeper agent” who’s had his memory erased and was placed in
this small, backwoods town. So when one of the C.I.A.’s top agents decides to “terminate”
all evidence of the project Mike is attached to, “the stoner” wakes up from his
deep sleep and suddenly starts realizing he has unexplained abilities to
survive and killing skills that would rival the top ninja or Navy Seal.
The killing
spree he goes on, almost apologetically is crazy. He uses frying pans, spoons,
shovels and, of course standard weapons like guns and knives to kill anything
the C.I.A throws at him. This is one bloody and violent movie, but it has a
real sense of humor. For example when he explains to his girlfriend, after he
kills his first two men, “but they were real d****”. Thankfully the movie only has a run time of
96 minutes because I was growing numb from all the graphic violence.
American
Ultra is not for the squeamish but, if you can handle the blood and gore, it is
a really smart comedy that I really enjoyed. I groaned as much as I laughed.
The movie is
rated “R” for strong, bloody violence, drug use and sexual situations. On my “Hollywood
Popcorn Scale” I rate American Ultra a LARGE.
Hollywood
Hernandez
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