THE AMERICAN
1 out of 5 stars

such a disappointment… :/ george clooney tries hard in this (indie) foreign movie about an american “assassin” who falls in love with a hooker, has a bunch of swedes trying to kill him, and all this happening in a small italian village a few hours outside of rome. wow, i can’t believe i just summarized the plot for ya! :P

so, like I said, george clooney is jack the assassin, working for some guy named pavel, but we learn NOTHING about him throughout this movie nor why he needs to go into hiding. (the answer is that something went wrong and now someone is sending ppl to kill jack) pavel tells him to hide out in some small italian village outside of rome, and he does just that. except that…he befriends father benetto and an italian prostitute named carla. (he actually falls in love with her) one thing about assassins is that they probably should NEVER fall in love… but jack doesn’t care. pavel tells him that he’s got a job for him, and that’s to build a custom weapon for an associate of his named mathilde. she tells him what specs she wants and such, and he starts building… there’s an endgame to all of this, but nothing thrilling like you’d expect from a clooney movie. :/

this one had potential to be great because it was from focus features, but i just couldn’t get myself to like it. i’m not sure if it had to do with the casting or idunno…LACK OF character development or plot?! we learn NOTHING about jack the assassin nor his backstory, and you get absolutely no sense to why he’s in the situation he’s in… this one fails as a thriller on sooooooo many levels, but at least there’s a hot sex scene and the italian scenery is nice. was jack suppose to be a james bond type b/c he sure liked hooking up with bond-like babes? maybe next time, i’ll just stick with a bond film and 007 daniel craig. :P