American Assassin

Following the murder of his fiancée, Mitch Rapp trains under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley. The pair then is enlisted to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on military and civilian targets.

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Film Cast:

  • Mitch Rapp: Dylan O’Brien
  • Stan Hurley: Michael Keaton
  • ‘Ghost’: Taylor Kitsch
  • Annika: Shiva Negar
  • Irene Kennedy: Sanaa Lathan
  • Victor: Scott Adkins
  • Director Stansfield: David Suchet
  • Minister Behurz: Navid Negahban
  • General Rostami: Joseph Long
  • Katrina: Charlotte Vega
  • Admiral Bristow: Andrew Pleavin
  • Adnan Al-Mansur: Shahid Ahmed
  • American Operator: Joost Janssen
  • American Operator #2, Mansur Compound: Adam Collins
  • Bartender: Christopher Bomford
  • Blackhawk Pilot: Stephen Shafer
  • Borys Bartosh: Vladimir Fridman
  • Building Superintendent: Nick Cavaliere
  • Damage Control Officer: Adam Robertson
  • Dr. Frain: Trevor White
  • CIA Officer #3: Josh Danford
  • CIA Officer Giving Nuke Intel: JF Davis
  • Delta One Lead: Bentley Kalu
  • Emily, Rome Safe House: Sydney White
  • Female Mossad Agent: Shani Erez
  • Hotel Concierge: Martina Brusco
  • Iranian Nuclear Physicist: Sharif Dorani
  • Javeed: Alaa Safi
  • Kamil, Sharif’s Assistant: Tolga Safer
  • Keys: Bruno Bilotta
  • Khaled: Yousef Sweid
  • Mansur Recruit Video: Chris Webster
  • Martial Arts Instructor: Buster Reeves
  • NSA Techie: Simon Connolly
  • Orion Instructor: Michael Wildman
  • Pregnant Woman: Alexis Barron
  • Sharif: Khalid Laith
  • Sharif’s Mistress: Göksun Çam
  • Stolen Car Owner: Roberto Sgarbi
  • Turkish MP: Aso Sherabayani
  • Turkish Operative: Nej Adamson
  • USS Eisenhower Captain: Ronan Summers
  • USS Flynn Captain: Matt Rippy
  • Vladik: Gjevat Kelmendi
  • Warsaw Cop: Damian Dudkiewicz
  • Ben (uncredited): Jake Mann
  • CIA Agent (uncredited): Jorge Leon Martinez
  • Camorra (uncredited): Dacio Caballero
  • Waiter (uncredited): Kamil Lemieszewski
  • Destroyer Boson (uncredited): Kola Bokinni
  • Boat Terrorist (uncredited): Garreth Hadfield
  • Tourist Victim (uncredited): Alexander Winters
  • Ashani: Mohammad Bakri

Film Crew:

  • Sound Designer: Eugene Gearty
  • Editor: Conrad Buff IV
  • Costume Design: Anna B. Sheppard
  • Producer: Nick Wechsler
  • Producer: Lorenzo di Bonaventura
  • Supervising Sound Editor: Skip Lievsay
  • Screenplay: Edward Zwick
  • Screenplay: Marshall Herskovitz
  • Original Music Composer: Steven Price
  • Director of Photography: Enrique Chediak
  • Assistant Art Director: Julia Dehoff
  • Makeup Artist: Jo Grover
  • Production Design: Andrew Laws
  • Casting: Elaine Grainger
  • Screenplay: Stephen Schiff
  • Art Direction: Lek Chaiyan Chunsuttiwat
  • Foley Artist: Jay Peck
  • Sound Effects Editor: Wyatt Sprague
  • Supervising Art Director: Matthew Gray
  • Music Supervisor: Chris Seefried
  • Director: Michael Cuesta
  • Executive Producer: Daniel M. Stillman
  • Screenplay: Michael Finch
  • Line Producer: Marco Valerio Pugini
  • Set Decoration: Tom Olive
  • Concept Artist: Matthew Savage
  • Dialogue Editor: Michael Feuser
  • Boom Operator: Richard Pilcher
  • Fight Choreographer: Marcus Shakesheff
  • Stunt Double: Andy Wareham
  • Set Decoration: Naomi Moore
  • Makeup Designer: Felicity Bowring
  • Art Direction: Justin Warburton-Brown
  • Visual Effects Producer: Carl Grinter
  • Script Supervisor: Paula Casarin
  • Visual Effects Supervisor: Paul Norris
  • Stunt Double: Timothy Eulich
  • Dialogue Editor: Alexa Zimmerman
  • Art Department Coordinator: Somm Suthinee Chantakarn
  • Steadicam Operator: Alessandro Brambilla
  • Visual Effects Producer: Becky Roberts
  • Art Direction: Roberta Federico
  • Aerial Director of Photography: Adam Dale
  • Second Unit Director of Photography: Robert Binnall
  • Chief Lighting Technician: Jonathan Spencer
  • Property Master: Terry Woods
  • Art Department Coordinator: Beverley Crockard
  • Prosthetic Designer: Mark Coulier
  • Hair Designer: Francesco Alberico
  • Key Makeup Artist: Ailbhe Lemass
  • Camera Operator: Stefan Stankowski
  • Costume Supervisor: Daryl Bristow
  • Pilot: Alessandro Bolognesi
  • Co-Producer: Aidan Elliott
  • Supervising Art Director: Gianpaolo Rifino
  • ADR Voice Casting: Dann Fink
  • Animation: Gábor Kiss
  • Rigging Gaffer: Jason Martin
  • ADR Mixer: Chris Navarro
  • Sound Designer: Lawrence Zipf
  • Supervising Sound Editor: Paul Urmson
  • Costume Supervisor: Stefano De Nardis
  • Assistant Costume Designer: Peter Paul
  • ADR Mixer: Michael Miller
  • First Assistant Camera: Paul Wheeldon
  • Script Supervisor: Katie Harlow
  • First Assistant Editor: Carole A. Kenneally
  • Supervising Armorer: Dan Osborne
  • Supervising Armorer: Nick Jeffries
  • Pilot: Marc Wolff
  • Still Photographer: Christian Black
  • Visual Effects Editor: Samuel Perkins
  • Hairstylist: Tony Browne
  • First Assistant “B” Camera: Tobias Eedy
  • Casting Associate: Emma Gunnery
  • Special Effects Supervisor: Simon Cockren
  • Key Makeup Artist: Melanie Lenihan
  • Supervising Sound Editor: Dave Flynch
  • Assistant Costume Designer: Claudette Lilly
  • Sound Recordist: Lee Salevan
  • Set Decoration: Letizia Santucci
  • Gaffer: Francesco Zaccaria
  • Visual Effects Supervisor: Richard R. Reed
  • Visual Effects Coordinator: Phoebe Sutherland
  • Key Grip: Tommaso Mele
  • In Memory Of: Vince Flynn
  • Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Brian Tarlecki
  • Drone Operator: Gareth Harfoot
  • Makeup Artist: Melissa Mazzocco
  • First Assistant “A” Camera: Spencer Murray
  • Utility Stunts: Shiraz Yasin
  • Visual Effects Editor: Amar Ingreji
  • Animation: Thomas Phillips-Howard
  • Set Costumer: Simone Carlo Toniato Toso
  • Pilot: Will Samuelson
  • Stunt Double: Ian Pead
  • Stunts: Alexis Barron
  • Armorer: Paul Biddiss
  • Drone Pilot: Angus Benson-Blair
  • Art Direction: Jane Harwood
  • ADR Mixer: Hunter Berk
  • Property Master: Gianluca Piola
  • Script Supervisor: Elena Antzon
  • Marine Coordinator: Ian Creed
  • Costume Coordinator: Mark Wyndham
  • Key Costumer: Alma Magaña
  • Set Costumer: Max Brennan
  • Boom Operator: Luigi Pini
  • Boom Operator: Andrea Giannetta
  • 3D Generalist: Farhad Yusufi
  • Animation: Martin Rossi
  • Visual Effects Coordinator: Sara Pedramnia
  • Dolly Grip: Carlo Postiglione
  • Gaffer: Fabio Lucheroni
  • Key Grip: Giorgio Pezzotti
  • Lighting Technician: Jordan Spencer
  • Electrician: Neil Ashton
  • Electrician: Harry Gay
  • Electrician: Oliver Poole
  • Electrician: William Sheffield
  • Electrician: Oliver Whickman
  • Assistant Editor: Misako Shimizu
  • Modeling: Nishad Shelar
  • Second Assistant Director: Tom Rye
  • Makeup & Hair: Lynn Doron
  • Dolly Grip: Cristiano Biagioli
  • First Assistant “C” Camera: Tommy Holman
  • ADR Mixer: Bobby Johanson
  • ADR Recordist: Michael Rivera
  • First Assistant Director: Richard Goodwin
  • Foley Mixer: Micah Blaichman
  • Health and Safety: Daniel Rogers
  • Property Master: Pipat Sripradoo
  • Assistant Property Master: Warren Parkinson
  • Stunt Double: Casey Michaels
  • Second Assistant “A” Camera: Kat Spencer
  • Post Production Supervisor: Rachel Jablin
  • First Assistant Camera: Emanuele Leurini
  • Drone Cinematographer: Andrii Palekha
  • Stunts: Jessica Hooker
  • Art Direction: Arwel Evans
  • Makeup Artist: Kendall Capito
  • Prosthetic Makeup Artist: Colum Mangan
  • Third Assistant Director: Barney Shakespeare
  • Leadman: Stefano Carbonaro
  • Graphic Designer: Carly Mason
  • Concept Artist: Peter McKinstry
  • Greensman: Steven Murphy
  • Construction Coordinator: Thea Soady
  • Modeling: Bargaje Bharat
  • Rotoscoping Artist: Jay Joshi
  • Stunts: Supoj Khaowwong
  • Rigging Grip: Doriano Forti
  • Camera Trainee: Egidio Iorio
  • Second Assistant Camera: Calem Trevor

Movie Reviews:

  • Gimly: _American Assassin_ might be the most nothing movie of the year. I was sold on the trailer, I though Michael Keating looked great (and to be fair, he kinda was), but watching the movie itself, I felt completely blank. I can’t even recommend _American Assassin_ as background noise.
  • _Final rating:★½: – Boring/disappointing. Avoid where possible._
  • KE: Don’t bother watching, plot line has been so many times before. Turn off your TV and do something more productive instead !
  • Per Gunnar Jonsson: This movie has been sitting on my unwatched shelf for quite a while and yesterday I finally got around to watch it.
  • I actually found this movie to be not too bad actually. It is far from a cinematic masterpiece but it is a pretty solid action/revenge movie. Dylan O’Brien is, unfortunately, pretty meh as the main character. Michael Keaton on the other hand is quite good in his character.
  • It is a reasonably action filled movie and I really like that they didn’t try to turn it into some PG-13 crap. It is sometimes fairly brutal. The story is okay. It works. It is not overly complex and some people are probably moaning about it not being original enough. Well, I say, so what? It is a good concept so why screw with it? I do like revenge movies and although this one is far from the best, it is not at all shabby.
  • I wonder why some people seems to be claiming that this movie is just crap, one star out of ten and so on and so forth? Is it maybe because it dares bring up the subject of Islamist fanatics killing innocents? Or maybe because it doesn’t try to sugarcoat things and explain these “poor misunderstood” psychopaths but lays the blame straight on said lowlife as well as on Iran? Or maybe because it doesn’t try to blame certain of today’s political retards’ preferred boogieman Russia?
  • I have not read the book so I guess, if it doesn’t do the book justice, I can somewhat understand not liking it. However, to me, this was a decent, not spectacular but decent, two hours of entertainment. Decent action, decent speed and (with the exception of O’Brien) decent acting.
  • CinemaSerf: This starts off with shades of the real Tunisian beach attacks from 2015, when “Rapp” (Dylan O’Brien) and his girlfriend find themselves caught up in a shooting that ends in tragedy. Determined on revenge, he attracts the attention of the CIA with whom he ends up working before being sent to the ultimate ninja training camp under the auspices of veteran “Hurley” (Michael Keaton). Working with local intelligence, they identify their target and after a few predictably failed attempts, they are soon on the trail of the criminal who has plans of his own to exact revenge on the American imperialists. O’Brien is easy enough on the eye but the rest of this is about as derivative as it comes. Set piece action scenes ensue as day follows night, peppered with who to trust issues and the introduction of an unlikely enemy in “Ghost” (Taylor Kitsch) who has his own axe to grind with “Hurley”. This is genre-fodder, and kills just short of two hours effortlessly enough (though the CGI at the end is really poor for 2017!). You are unlikely to recall it afterwards, and the plot has virtually no jeopardy so don’t expect much here.

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