A rather exciting, downright visceral, very often romantic, and unexpectedly fun experience.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 27, 2022

"American Ultra" is Explosively Fun and Completely Ridiculous

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 9, 2021

That the filmmakers have some consciousness of the criminal role of the CIA makes the movie, that is neither funny nor well made, a shameful project from the start.

| Feb 26, 2021

The violence often feels gratuitous - we're told Mike singlehandedly kills seventeen people - but the look of stoned amazement that drifts over Eisenberg's face each time he pulls off some feat of derring-do is worth the wanton bloodshed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 3, 2021

...a better-than-average contemporary thriller.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 8, 2020

Aside from a few bright spots, American Ultra watches like a collection of scenes strung together because it seemed like it'd be cool.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 4, 2020

In the end, all I wanted was for it to be over as soon as possible. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 15, 2020

Stewart and Eisenberg seem like they're having a blast, and hanging out with them for 90 minutes makes American Ultra a good time.

| Jan 10, 2020

Despite the gaffs in tonal consistency, this movie, and it's funky little love story, deserves to find it's cult audience.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 16, 2019

The film does not tell anything, and none of its gags become as funny or playful as in 'Pineapple Express'. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Sep 11, 2019

American Ultra lands glancing blows when it should be jamming a soup spoon right in the jugular.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 20, 2019

Excessively violent and gory without needing to be, American Ultra never quite realizes which path it wants to take and leaves you ultimately unsatisfied.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 2, 2019

A promising start that quickly evolves into a convoluted mess of blood and gore.

| Jan 18, 2019

American Ultra looks like a wacky mash-up with unique ideas, but underneath it doesn't actually have anything new to say; it is the cinematic equivalent of a hipster.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 1, 2018

A breezy enough diversion (albeit, an insanely violent diversion) that does some clever things with its core conceit. Not necessarily "ultra," but okay.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 31, 2018

A paranoid rant against government surveillance and a scathing indictment of a brainwashed society.

| Aug 29, 2018

Even the violence lacks creativity, and simply revolves around disposable soldiers getting whacked with traumatic force simply so buckets of CGI blood can distract the audience into thinking that this movie is awesome

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 3, 2017

It's all very silly, tonally uneven and eventually a bit tedious.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 26, 2017

Individual scenes work well, but they amount to a disjointed whole, thanks to Nima Nourizadeh's direction.

| Oct 10, 2017

American Ultra's stoner rambles are every bit as precise as they were with Aaron Sorkin's zingers in The Social Network, and it's a total pleasure to not be subjected to another drooling stoner clich.

| Sep 25, 2017