Variety
The tough-cool tradition of classic French crime dramas lives in Anton Corbijn's thriller, "The American," until oddities and an unbelievable love story render it soft and nearly forgettable.
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The American
Thriller about an assassin (played by George Clooney in serious mode), who hides out in Italy for one last assignment. He strikes up a friendship with a local priest and a beautful woman, but can't escape the aftermath of a botched job in Sweden.
This is director Anton Corbijn's follow up to the brilliant Ian Curtis biopic Control.
Less2010106 minsUSAEnglish and Italian with English subtitles
DramaThriller
- Director:
- Anton Corbijn ('Control')
- Writer:
- Rowan Joffe
- Cast:
- George ClooneyBruce AltmanThekla ReutenIrina BjörklundViolante PlacidoPaolo Bonacelli
The American | Reviews
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The New York Times
It is a reasonably skillful exercise in genre and style, a well-made vessel containing nothing in particular, though some of its features - European setting, slow pacing, full-frontal female nudity - are more evocative of the art house than of the multiplex.
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The Guardian
George Clooney returns, setting aside the warm and witty persona that his fans love, and giving them instead one of his darkest and most unsympathetic characters: an ice-cold professional killer marooned in loneliness and fear.
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Roger Ebert
Here is a gripping film with the focus of a Japanese drama, an impenetrable character to equal Alain Delon's in "Le Samourai," by Jean-Pierre Melville.
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New Zealand Herald
Thriller shoots first then asks existential questions later. For quite some time.
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Hollywood Reporter
Nothing really adds up, and the ending is downright absurd. You would like even the most austere, doctrinaire existential movie to earn its downbeat ending. This one fails utterly to do so.
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The American is available to stream in Australia now on Google Play and Prime Video and Apple TV and Prime Video Store.