American Ultra Review

Slacker stoners Mike (Eisenberg) and Phoebe (Stewart) enjoy simple small town life, an idyll that is blown to smithereens by the an army of 20 CIA killers who arrive hell-bent on killing Mike.

by Ian Freer |
Published on
Release Date:

03 Sep 2015

Running Time:

95 minutes

Certificate:

15

Original Title:

American Ultra

Sweet stoner couple Mike (Eisenberg) and Phoebe (Stewart) life a low-key life in a small town, an idyll that is threatened by a kind of Bourne with a bong, this pits Eisenberg and Stewart as a stoner couple, the twist being that Eisenberg is actually a brainwashed super-soldier who can improvise murder with any implement who is now facing a termination order. It’s ragged and messy but it has more energy, and ideas than more coherent so called successful films. Nourizadeh stages exaggerated bone-crunching action with cackle and glee but this gets by on Eisenberg and Stewart — he is a master of zero degree humour; so is she but adds a warm centre and something else up her sleeve.

A potential cult item in the making, American Ultra may be an acquired taste but it's chocful of invention.
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