Monday, January 25, 2016

American Ultra

Actors: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Topher Grace, Connie Britton, Walton Goggins, John Leguizamo, Bill Pullman, Tony Hale
Rating: 8 out of 10, An action comedy which had liberal doses of both. Jesse Eisenberg plays a stoned out loser in West Virginia who also happens to be a deadly secret agent that Eric Forman and Boyd Crowder are trying to kill. Coach Taylor’s wife comes to the rescue in time to semi-activate Eisenberg from his sleeper state and hijinks ensue. It was nice to see Kristen Stewart leave her Bella state of perpetual pout and truly engage as the girlfriend with real on screen chemistry with Eisenberg. This could have been something really special if they played up the comedy a little more but they got sucked into too much time with the bad guys instead of the Eisenberg-Stewart pairing. All in all though, a lot better than you’ve probably heard with some laugh out loud moments as Eisenberg keeps accidently killing highly trained assassins.

MVP: Eisenberg as the befuddled but very dangerous Mike

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