Story: A stoner - who is in fact a government agent - is marked as a liability and targeted for extermination. But he's too well-trained and too high for them to handle.
Jesse Eisenberg and Kirsten Stewart star in this action-comedy which is a mix of what I feel of Zombieland and Adventureland, this should be called Drug-inducedactionland. The film, as the story mentions, deals with a stoner who becomes targeted by the government, aka The Bourne Identity, and is set to be killed off. Topher Grace plays the agent behind the dastardly plot and Connie Britton (Nashville) works hard to stop him.
While yes the movie plays off of Jason Bourne a bit the film is one hell of a fun action flick with a wise cracking John Leguizamo making an appearance and Bill Pullman (Independence Day) making a cameo as the head of the CIA. Kirsten and Jesse make for an amazing couple and Kirsten finally gets to play a super bad ass. She is the best she has ever been in this film, she lets it all go and its amazing (and no we do not see her strip down nude)
American Ultra provides an Ultra blast of action entertainment and is a solid film to end the summer on. Great B movie action, a cast set to have some fun and a mostly original storyline. Also, being an artist I loved the fact how Jesse's stoner character was creating a comic about a hero monkey, so cool
Rating: B+
P.S If you are a movie fan you may pick up on actors who starred in movies together such as Walton Goggins (who plays Laugher) and Topher Grace (who plays Adrian Yates). Both actors played bad killers in the sci-fi flick Predators.
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