Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Michael Cuesta Stars: Dylan O'Brien, Michael Keaton Sanaa Lathan, Taylor Kitsch, Shiva Neger, Scott Adkins, David Suchet, Shahid Ahmed, Charlotte Vega, Navid Negahban. This attempt to kick start another pacy and violent spy thriller franchise featuring an indestructible hero to rival the likes of Bond, Bourne or Jack Reacher is a fairly generic action yarn. American Assassin is the first film to feature the character of Mitch Rapp, a counter terrorist agent for the CIA, who was created by the late Vince Flynn, an American Continue reading
AMERICAN ASSASSIN
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Filed Under: A, Action, Film Review, Thriller Tagged With: american assassin, american assassin film review, based on a novel, Charlotte Vega, conrad buff, David Suchet, Dylan O'Brien, ed zwick, enrique chediak, greg king, marshall herskovitz, micahel finch, michael cuesta, Michael Keaton Sanaa Lathan, mitch rapp, navid negahban, nuclear terrorism, Scott Adkins, Shahid Ahmed, Shiva Neger, stephen schiff, Taylor Kitsch, vince flynn
KILL THE MESSENGER
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Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Michael Cuesta Stars: Jeremy Renner, Rosemarie De Witt, Oliver Platt, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Andy Garcia, Richard Jenkins, Michael Sheen, Ray Liotta, Tim Blake Nelson, Robert Patrick, Barry Pepper. In the 1980s the Reagan administration waged a covert war on drugs. But it was a war that created some strange bedfellows. At the same time, the CIA was apparently helping drug dealers smuggle crack cocaine into the urban ghettoes of Los Angeles and other American cities, and using the funds to help prop up the Contra rebels fighting in Continue reading
Filed Under: Drama, Film Review, K Tagged With: andy garcia, barry pepper, gary webb, greg king, jeremy renner, journalism, kill the messenger, kill the messenger film review, mary elizabeth winstead, michael cuesta, michael sheen, oliver platt, Ray Liotta, richard jenkins, robert patrick, rosemarie de witt, true story
