...an above-average thriller that does, at times, feel like a throwback to the 1990s’ similar-themed fare.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 19, 2022

Acceptable for those who are less demanding, but not much more. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 18, 2022

American Assassin uses Islam as a convenient shorthand for terrorism and evil, yet it's conspicuously absent in 'good' characters from Iran.

| Original Score: F | Sep 17, 2021

In American Assassin I was seeing all of the ingredients on the screen that could entertain, but what it amounts to is a missed opportunity.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 8, 2021

If you're looking for insightful comment on the state of the world, however, American Assassin isn't it...

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 4, 2021

Has one too many revenge plots but not enough thrills

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 1, 2021

At times the film devolves into a mindless actioner, which is perhaps where it is most comfortable.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 5, 2020

Great adult role for Dylan O'Brien to distant himself from the teen flicks he's been in up until now...a slick new action franchise that has lots of potential...

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 5, 2020

More than anything, American Assassin is a film that severely overestimates how seriously it should take itself.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 1, 2020

Maybe I expected too much.

| Original Score: C | Jul 13, 2020

This potential franchise starter has Bourne envy, big time.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 1, 2020

American Assassin doesn't reinvent the wheel, but thanks to a bit of fortunate chemistry, it does breathe some much-appreciated life into the spy thriller game.

| May 13, 2020

In an age with so many great entertainment options, fine equates to: "Why bother?"

| Mar 30, 2020

Not the type of film to break convention or shake-up the action genre in any way but, much like the film's competent lead ... it gets the job done.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 15, 2020

American Assassin is a badly made right-wing USA vs. Everybody action spy thriller that's not worth anyone's money or time

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jan 10, 2020

Like in the Bond and Bourne movies, the globe trotting brings you to Spain to Rome to Turkey and more, Even so, this is another one of those summer action flicks we think just didn't light up the screen.

| Sep 20, 2019

The poor script, something that the director Michael Cuesta doesn't manage to compensate, infects most of the cast. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 7, 2019

American Assassin promises a series of middling to decent actioners that serve as little more than torture porn for xenophobes and nationalists.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 17, 2019

It's just boring. It's a plot we've seen before with characters that have been in a thousand different movies.

| Original Score: 4/10 | May 17, 2019

... If only filmmakers had left some of the polish off their hero and given Rapp that kind of grit - a scrappiness befitting his age and experience - then we'd have a franchise to root for.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 16, 2019