American Assassin (2017) movie poster

American Assassin (2017)

"Assassins aren't born. They're made."
ThumbScore
👍 58%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 40%
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Director
Michael Cuesta
Runtime
1h 52m
Rated
R
Country
Hong Kong, United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
6.4/10 (3,208 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
34%
Metacritic
45

Cast

Dylan O'Brien as Mitch Rapp · 65% avg
Michael Keaton as Stan Hurley · 73% avg
Taylor Kitsch as 'Ghost' · 73% avg
Shiva Negar as Annika
Sanaa Lathan as Irene Kennedy · 70% avg
Scott Adkins as Victor · 67% avg
David Suchet as Director Stansfield · 68% avg
Navid Negahban as Minister Behurz · 68% avg

Is American Assassin good?

It's divisive. Only 58% of audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 40%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#1762 / 1971 · Action
Rank in its year
#253 / 305 · 2017

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

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. Wikipedia ↗

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What Reddit Thinks

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⬆ 22,550💬 3,542 comments
Box Office Week: IT is #1 again with incredible $60M weekend, becoming the highest grossing Stephen King film and the highest grossing September release in just two weeks. American Assassin opens fine at #2 with $14.8M and mother! opens to awful #3 with $7.5M and receives an F rating on Cinemascore.
| Rank | Title | Domestic Gross (Weekend) | Worldwide Gross (Cume) | Week # | :---|:---|:---|:---| :--- | 1 | IT | $60,000,000 | $371,310,619 | 2 | |... Read on Reddit →
Top comment: "I swear to god, WB better not get greedy and stretch IT out to 3 films like they did with The..."
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