Stephan Hammond It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

utahdarkhorse Eisenburgs emo virgin character was only slightly annoying when he was actually young enough to play it. But he's 35 years old and this ridiculous, spineless character he's playing got old about 30 seconds in. Half a movie later, it's still there. Couldn't watch any more.

Ayal Oren Saw it last night on TV, and it did make me think. The plot is obviously silly and filled with huge holes and contradictions. But this is part of the territory of the sub-genre it so evidently parodies. That is the secret agent who was trained into a super human killing machine, combined with the damaged start. In a way it's a satirical version of La Femme Nikita, with hints toward Jason Bourne and The Long Kiss Goodnight.So, that's what the movie parodies, but if it didn't have any satirical aim, the whole thing would've been a waste of time money and talent, and if one misses the satire, that what one is left with. Well I find it to be a rather pointed satire of the Bureaucratic new attitude to spying, in which people are assets and life or death are simple side effects of managerial decision.The entire thing is a very tricky combination, since the plot is riddled with problems, as I already mentioned. But Jesse Eisenberg delivers a fantastic performance as the stoner who's a killing machine and doesn't know it. Topher Grace is also brilliant as a bureaucrat who got promoted into a position of power he doesn't understand, and still looks at the world as one big administrative system which bureaucracy can control and manage. The others perform their roles all right, but without Eisenberg and Grace the whole construction crumbles as a house of cards. With the two of them it's a fairly enjoyable experience.

Floated2 American Ultra was a released and advertised as a type of stoner action-comedy, however it was not as comedic as lead to believe, but more so dramatic with plenty of violent action. Starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart, playing a couple whom we are to believe everything is fine between them, turns out for the worst while watching this film. Topher Grace plays the lead antagonist and he wasn't as believable and, acted as if he was still on a sitcom. He was miscast and not intimidating as the character was intended to be.American Ultra is quite a bizarre and weirdly film, where not much is explained and what is occurring happen very quickly,and all at once. There are brief twists along the way but for the most part, the film isn't entertaining or interesting enough. The trailers lead it believe this was another stoner comedy like Pineapple Express, but it is far from it. It is more like Hesher (starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt) but not as good, or even slightly similar to the Bourne films (in terms of plot wise) but also not as good. This film tries being more dramatic and emotional than needed and with the writing not being as great, we don't sympathize for the characters as we probably are supposed to. It takes itself too serious and that is a flaw. Sure there are action sets including shootouts, and fights, and some of which are quite bloody and disturbing but it isn't very good.Overall, American Ultra is not what it seemed to be as advertised, and it is lacking in general entertainment. The plot line is quite clever but the execution isn't great, and with better ideas, this movie could have been better and possibly a cult classic. Perhaps this film went through many edits and changes which is why the genres were somewhat all over the place.

SnoopyStyle Mike Howell (Jesse Eisenberg) is stuck in the small town of Liman, West Virginia. His girlfriend Phoebe Larson (Kristen Stewart) is the only good thing in his life. He's a convenience store clerk and has panic attacks whenever he tries to leave town. CIA Agent Victoria Lasseter (Connie Britton) is told that her Ultra program and Mike is to be eliminated by her CIA rival Adrian Yates (Topher Grace). Victoria goes to activate Mike turning him into a skilled action hero.The basic premise has good potential and Eisenberg could be fun as an action lead. The CIA stuff is distracting and Topher Grace is barely functional in his role. The movie would improve by cutting out half of that part. The potential is never fully realized. There are fun moments that could have been much better. I can't pinpoint the exact problem but much of the blame has to be laid at the feet of sophomore director Nima Nourizadeh who made the indie party movie Project X. There are numerous little problems that add up to be a bit of a disappointment.