The American Movie Review

Title: The American

Directed By: Anton Corbijn

Starring: George Clooney, Violante Placido, Thekla Reuten, Paolo Bonacelli, Johan Leysen

When someone sneezes During a movie and girls on theatergoer a few seats away Actually says, "God bless you," it's never a good sign - for the movie. You know what else isn't a good sign? The man scratchings at his head incessantly in front of me, the four people Ken Walked out, the woman a few seats over constantly checking the time is her phone and the man next to me counting the REMAINING Twizzlers in the bag as though they're the last pieces left on earth and who's got to make Them last, all of wakes were monumentally more exciting please the American.

George Clooney is Jack. Well, they's some Jack Thurs, vain Thurs others, they are Edward's. While in Sweden Jack gets too cozy with a woman and "when at his cover is Blown, who has no choice vain Thurs flee. His boss Pavel (Johan Leysen), Jack insists lay low in a small mountain town. There you who adopts the name-to-use amongst Edward at his new acquaintances, a priest, Father Benedetto (Paolo Bonacelli), and a local prostitute, Clara (Violante Placido).

Soon on arrival at his, Pavel Jack contacts about one last gig Thurs keep him busy while they's Hiding out. They covertly meets a woman with Ken Slips him the details of the gun she's hiring him construct Thurs. Completing the top of the job, 'Managing at his budding relationship with Clara and having "heart-to-hearts with Father Benedetto, Jack must elude a team of Swedish Assassins aiming Thurs take him out.

Sounds exciting right? Not exactly. The American is as a slow and deliberate As They come and Eve's insultingly so. However, Actually things start out decently. Jack goes a Hike with an icy at his lady, but their winds up in a gun battle with hmmmm Assassins. The article is Fairly tense and the results quite Shocking, but their proposal from WE GET all there is lingering shot on the lingering shot Nearly backed by a non-existent score. When the pace has yet Thurs pick back up on 30 minutes of the movie, it's quite obvious That The American is quite the opposite of a thriller.

It's easy to see what Anton Corbijn is Trying to do one, they wants to Make a chic and subtle character study. There'd be nothing wrong with at his STYLISTIC Choices they had Considered the film's entertainment value as well. The American is such "a Bore, it'll be impossible for some Nearly Thurs Eve Give the story a chance. But Even If you Manage Thurs emerge from the slew of silent gun-building sequences, sipping coffee and scenic shots without heavy eyelids, there's still Not much of a story to latch onto Thurs.