Storyline
American Ultra is a fast-paced action comedy about Mike, a seemingly hapless and unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe, is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. In the blink of an eye, as his secret past comes back to haunt him, Mike is thrust into the middle of a deadly government operation and is forced to summon his inner action-hero in order to survive.
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Cast
Kristen Stewart, John Leguizamo, Stuart Greer, Michael Papajohn, Topher Grace, Walton Goggins, Tim J. Smith, Jesse Eisenberg, Monique Ganderton, Nash Edgerton, Eyad Elbitar, Wayne Pére, Bill Pullman, Tony Hale, Ilram Choi, Billy Slaughter, James Moses Black, Vic Chao, Geraldine Glenn, Dino Dos Santos, John L. Armijo, Tyler Forrest, Teri Wyble, Connie Britton, Eric Stratemeier, Don Yesso, Paul Andrew O'Connor, Sope Aluko, Greg Rementer, Matthew R. Staley, Sam Malone, Jim Klock, Freddie Poole, Joseph Fischer, Rachel Wulff, Tom Bui, Michelle DeVito, Michael Jamorski, James Bendishaw, Lavell Crawford, Gabe Begneaud, Lyle Brocato, Jack Yang, Johnny McPhail, Nick Stanner, Trace Cheramie, Isaac Hughes, John Bernecker, Alvin Chong, Robert Bennett, Eric VanArsdale, Macee Binns, Nicolas Bosc, Kyle Crosby, Alexander Eldimiati, Philip Fornah, Mary Elizabeth Runyon, Douglas Wilcox II
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Reviews
100
Village Voice
Nima Nourizadeh’s American Ultra is a bloody valentine attached to a bomb. It’s violent, brash, inventive and horrific, and perhaps the most romantic film of the year.
75
Check your brain at the popcorn-butter pump in the lobby and enjoy it.
60
Part stoner comedy, midnight movie, outsiders’ love story and ultraviolent B-movie, this intriguing film is given real soul by stars Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart, even if director Nima Nourizadeh’s ambitions end up being more laudable than the results.
58
The bone-crunching action and relentlessly blood-letting feels out of place, and as those sequences start appearing with more frequency, the film loses much of its rangy charm.
50
A genre mash that's mildly amusing until it can't think of anything else to do besides flop around in the deep end of conspicuous gore.
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