American Assassin

Synopsis: Twenty three-year-old Mitch lost his parents to a tragic car accident at the age of fourteen, and his girlfriend to a terrorist attack just as they were engaged. Seeking revenge, he is enlisted by CIA Deputy Director Irene Kennedy as a black ops recruit. Kennedy then assigns Cold War veteran Stan Hurley to train Mitch. Together they will later on investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on military and civilian targets. The discovery of a pattern in the violence leads them to a joint mission with a lethal Turkish agent to stop a mysterious operative intent on starting a world war in the Middle East.
Genre: Action, Thriller
Director(s): Michael Cuesta
Production: Lionsgate and CBS Films
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
45
Rotten Tomatoes:
34%
R
Year:
2017
112 min
$34,449,582
Website
3,087 Views


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Here we are in beautiful Ibiza, Spain.

Beautiful sand.

Beautiful waves.

My favorite shorts.

And my favorite girl who is about to get...

Oh, my God!

Hey!

- Come on, give it to me.

- No! Stop! Come on!

- Mitch!

- This is great!

I'm serious.

Oh. Oh, my God.

That is so cute.

Honey, this is like...

Let me film for just

a couple minutes.

- It's like we're honeymooners.

- Oh, my God!

Honeymooners

"Honeymoon"?

Yeah.

We're not married.

Katrina Harper...

You're my best friend

in the whole world.

Oh, my God.

Babe, stop it.

You're gonna make me...

If you get emotional,

you're gonna kill me.

I'm trying to get

through this, babe.

I love you, more than anything.

Will you marry me?

Oh, my God!

- Yes!

- Yeah?

Yes, Mitch Rapp.

I'll marry you.

Sorry, it's hard one-handed.

You like it?

It was my mom's ring.

I love it.

I love you.

- I'm still...

- Are you filming? Oh, my God!

Yeah, I'm still recording.

I'm trying to get this.

Come on, Mitch!

This is why I was filming now.

You see, now you get it.

Smile.

I'm gonna get drinks.

- Okay.

- Yeah?

Don't be too long.

I won't, I won't.

I love you.

I'll be back.

Engagement drinks in

the water, people.

Whoo-hoo!

Oh. Thank you. Thank you.

Very sweet, thanks.

Babe, we're getting applause.

I love you.

Thank you.

Hola. Como estas?

What can I get you?

Um, can I just get

two drinks, please?

Dos bebidas, if that's right...

Um, I just got engaged,

so something special.

It can be anything, though.

Oh, you lucky guy.

Oh, can they be kinda

strong too? Is that cool?

Thank you, man.

Oh, whoa.

Maybe not that strong.

Katrina!

Katrina!

Katrina?

Katrina!

Mitch!

Mitch!

Mitch!

Katrina!

How are you tonight my brother?

I am ready to go on vacation.

Click encrypted link,

then download file.

We're gonna f***ing set

your sh*t on fire, man!

F***in' burn,

motherf***er, burn!

To our brothers

across the globe...

Come join our fight against

American imperialism.

They will pay for the

murder of our families,

our friends, and all children.

Hold it, hold it, hold it.

What is in your heart brother?

I want to bathe my hands in

the blood of the infidels.

We are logging your

keystrokes. Answer quickly.

Who was taken in the

Year of Sorrow?

Khadijah and Abu Talib.

Who was with the Prophet

for the Isra and Mi'raj?

The Angel Gabriel.

All right, stop! Come on, man!

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Let him go, let him go.

Let him go, let him go!

Break it up. Let him go!

What the f*** is your deal, man?

That's it. You're

done, Rapp. Get out.

He keeps doing this sh*t.

Get out!

Have a nice f***ing day.

You were out of line.

Back to work. Keep moving.

Get outta there!

You're gonna get yourself killed,

you dumbass!

What's up with this guy?

F***!

Rapp, why I gotta

tell you again?

Sorry, Mr. Nazir. I didn't

realize it was past 10:00.

I'll try to keep it down.

Yeah, enough with the sports.

Copy that. All right.

Thanks, Mr. Nazir.

He's up again.

Will you come here?

Allah wills that I join the

struggle wherever I am called.

Assalam-alaikum.

Walaikum-assalam.

If it were up to me,

I would not have chosen you.

But others have

decided differently.

Whomsoever Allah guides

there is none to misguide.

What is the name of the sister

of the Prophet, peace be upon him.

Huzafa bint Al-Haarith.

Wrong.

She was not the

Prophet's sister.

She is honored as the sister of

the Prophet, peace be upon him...

...because both suckled from her

blood mother, Halimah al-Sa'diyah.

Why have you come?

To help Adnan al-Mansur

achieve his people's destiny.

Inshallah.

I wanted to look in your eyes.

I don't trust you.

I'm prepared to die a martyr.

What can I do to

earn your trust?

No!

Step away, now!

Come on!

The f*** off me!

He's dead, it's over.

Easy. Easy. Take it easy.

Area's secure.

You wanted to kill them all,

and then go on killing.

Pretty extreme, don't you think?

No, I don't think

that's extreme at all.

I think people like

that deserve to die

in the worst ways

you can imagine.

What do you remember about

your parents' death?

Car crash.

I was in Massachusetts.

They were in Tunisia

at the time.

I was 14.

That's what I remember.

You started having

discipline problems.

Got yourself kicked out of

three boarding schools.

Yeah, yeah. I know.

I wonder what that was about.

Let's talk about what happened

after that day on the beach.

Oh, Jesus Christ. Again?

Are you kidding me?

Yeah, again.

You gave up everything

after that, didn't you?

Your grad studies at

Brown University.

I must have lost interest.

In everything?

No, not everything.

See you later, Dr. Frain.

See you tomorrow, same time?

I like the new look.

Irene Kennedy, CIA

Deputy Director

in charge of Counterterrorism.

I know who you are.

Any idea how long you been here?

30 days.

Enough time for you to

figure out a couple things.

Yeah, yeah. I've figured

out a lot about myself.

It's been a very reflective

time. Thank you.

You wouldn't have made it through

the next 20 seconds there alive.

I guess we'll never

know now, will we?

You told Dr. Frain you thought

you were gonna kill Mansur

and wipe out his whole cell.

For starters.

Mmm-hmm.

You had an even bigger

agenda, didn't you, Mitch?

What did you think,

you were gonna jump from cell

to cell taking out terrorists?

Righting the world's wrongs?

Got to Mansur, didn't I?

I mean, it's more than

you accomplished.

I'm gonna let you

in on something.

Our people here, they don't

know what to do with you.

A lot of them think we should

just throw you in a supermax.

Me?

I like your agenda, Mitch.

I can help you with it,

if you throw in with us.

We can teach you how to

play with the big boys.

Yeah, let me stop

you right there.

You don't think I considered

that 18 months ago?

Joining the CIA?

I made the decision to

pursue Mansur on my own

'cause I knew I could get it done.

What you need to understand

is that I'm the only way.

To get what you want.

Why the hell would I trust you?

Because I believe in you.

And I'm all you've got.

What's been confirmed is

the enriched plutonium

has been stolen

from a decommissioned

Russian nuclear facility.

If they get their hands

on a nuclear trigger

and a physicist to build it,

they'd be able to arm it and

detonate it at any time.

Tom?

He's testing through the roof.

Might be the best

I've ever seen.

We've had him under

surveillance for six months.

Martial arts, gun skills.

I've surveilled dozens

of these vigilantes.

This one is different.

Yeah, well, I've gone

over these, Irene.

He's noncompliant,

he's oppositional.

He got us into Mansur's cell.

That's a hell of a lot

more than we ever managed.

All right, Orion is

an elite unit, Irene.

A secret unit.

Reports to you, me,

and no one else.

I don't want to be responsible

for that kind of mistake.

Now, that's Hurley talking.

Yeah, well, he's called

me twice about this.

This kind of psych profile

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Stephen Schiff

Stephen Schiff is an American screenwriter and journalist. He is best known for his work at The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, his screenplays for Lolita, True Crime, and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, and his work as a writer and producer on the acclaimed FX television series The Americans. more…

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