Review of The American (2010) by Shag00 — 11 May 2023
A bit of a bummer this one, the first couple of minutes sets the tone for the whole movie. He and the squeeze are out taking a walk and they are shot at by a sniper. Very stimulating, anyway he pulls out his gun prompting the squeeze to ask, you have a gun? It's just not something she could not have noticed. Moving on. he takes cover against a small cliff face and shoots the sniper who was only 3-4 metres away, I mean please, was the sniper a retard or what. It is just so absurd and ridiculous.
Next he gets a contract not to kill someone as you might expect but rather to make a gun. Very confusing, if he is a gun maker why are people trying to kill him? Miraculously, after renting a room from a priest he is able to put together a gun factory in some tiny town in Italy. It's not that you could not fabricate your own firearms it's just the setting and the necessary secrecy in such a situation.
The next jolt, he finds a whore to bed. The conversation is that of 2 lovers not a **** and go girl and her latest trick, bizarre and somehow disjointed, as indeed the whole movie is.
If you have a spare 100 minutes it would be better spent reading a newspaper.
This review of The American (2010) was written by Shag00 on 11 May 2023.
The American has generally received mixed reviews.
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