The marketing for director Michael Cuesta’s latest thriller, American Assassin, wasn’t without its fair share of brouhaha over some of the intial artwork. Thankfully it wasn’t a huge page turner and it shouldn’t have a huge effect on the film’s overall delivery if it manages to win over a sizeable enough crowd for franchise potential with actor Dylan O’Brien (Maze Runner trilogy) leading the way.
AMERICAN ASSASSIN follows the rise of Mitch Rapp (Dylan O’Brien), a CIA black ops recruit under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley (Michael Keaton). The pair is then enlisted by CIA Deputy Director Irene Kennedy (Sanaa Lathan) to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on both military and civilian targets. Together the three discover a pattern in the violence leading them to a joint mission with a lethal Turkish agent (Shiva Negar) to stop a mysterious operative (Taylor Kitsch) intent on starting a World War in the Middle East.