American Assassin Page #4

Synopsis: Twenty three-year-old Mitch lost his parents to a tragic car accident at the age of fourteen, and his girlfriend to a terrorist attack just as they were engaged. Seeking revenge, he is enlisted by CIA Deputy Director Irene Kennedy as a black ops recruit. Kennedy then assigns Cold War veteran Stan Hurley to train Mitch. Together they will later on investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on military and civilian targets. The discovery of a pattern in the violence leads them to a joint mission with a lethal Turkish agent to stop a mysterious operative intent on starting a world war in the Middle East.
Genre: Action, Thriller
Director(s): Michael Cuesta
Production: Lionsgate and CBS Films
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
45
Rotten Tomatoes:
34%
R
Year:
2017
112 min
$34,449,582
Website
2,861 Views


Would be difficult for

inspectors to detect.

Ms. Kennedy, yes?

Mmm-hmm.

I assure you as

Minister of Defense

that we in Iran recognize how

much the spirit of comity

between our nations

would be compromised

if we were to acquire

weapons-grade plutonium

from any source.

Yes, it would.

Same goes for your

clients outside Iran,

Hezbollah. Hamas.

The Houthis.

Nuclear weapons are a danger

in any hands, Director.

Wasn't that your pretext

for your invasion

of our neighbor to the west?

One that cost

500,000 Iraqi lives

and left a wake of destruction

from which our region

has never recovered.

General Rostami, we came only

to tell you what we know.

Is that a threat?

Of course not, Minister Behruz.

Gentlemen, I very much

appreciate you meeting with us.

Not at all.

I only wish we could

offer more insight.

Thank you.

I don't trust General Rostami.

We need to keep this quiet.

How ready is Orion?

I'll check in with Hurley.

Why is there no one on watch?

You're all dead.

Yeah, yeah.

I got it, I got it.

You're dead.

What?

You wanna say something to

me? Say it. Go on, say it.

You got 30 seconds!

These are your targets.

Memorize them.

It's your responsibility to

be able to identify them.

You shoot a combatant,

you get a point.

You miss, you get a shock.

You shoot a noncombatant,

you get a bigger shock.

Combatant shoots you...

Let's just say you're

gonna feel it.

Ready?

Go.

What's Hurley doing?

He's f***ing with his head.

F***!

F***ing AR bullshit.

Shall we?

Okay.

That's clever.

Raw plutonium.

Highly enriched, as promised.

Let's hope.

Wow, that's a beautiful

sound, gentlemen.

May I?

Okay.

Wire the money.

That, I can do.

This is a cell phone.

Gotta move all the vans. The

Cardinal's visiting.

Okay.

Okay. Five minutes.

What's going on in there?

Souvenirs.

Possible code red,

backup needed.

There's nothing going on.

Come in.

It now appears that

all seven victims

were shot with a single weapon,

believed to be a Glock 29.

Traces of weaponized plutonium

were detected inside the van

where the bodies

of three Russians

and two Warsaw police

officers were found.

The Russian government

has confirmed

that the chemical footprint

of the plutonium in question

is a match to the

plutonium that was stolen

from the decommissioned

processing facility in Tobolsk.

Security footage is being

analyzed by Polish police,

now working in conjunction

with Interpol,

to identify the shooter

and his connection

to the missing plutonium.

The identity of the shooter

remains unknown...

Hi, excuse me.

- How can I help you?

- Question.

May I help you?

No, thanks. I'm okay.

- Ow! Ow! Ow!

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Stephen Schiff

Stephen Schiff is an American screenwriter and journalist. He is best known for his work at The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, his screenplays for Lolita, True Crime, and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, and his work as a writer and producer on the acclaimed FX television series The Americans. more…

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