TV Show or Movie: Movie
Where to Watch: Theaters
Genre: Action
What It Reminds Me Of:
Writer: Ken Nolan, Gary Spinelli
Directors: James Hawes
Cast: Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Caitríona Balfe, Jon Bernthal, Michael Stuhlbarg, Laurence Fishburne.
Premise: After Charles Heller, a CIA crpytographer, loses his wife in a London terrorist attack, he realizes his bosses will not act due to conflicting internal priorities. Having blackmailed the agency to train him as a field operative, Charles embarks on a one-man mission to hunt down his wife’s killers.
Review: I got tickets to an early screening of this movie. Not how I used to though. Not when you enter contests on places, like go fubo and hope that you can be one of the people with advanced free tickets. I was on AMC looking to see a movie last weekend and noticed that there was an early screening of this. And I was also able to use my AMC pass which I was pleasantly surprised by. I was excited to see this movie, a week early.
It’s funny, because Jon Bernthal is currently playing two of the same characters in two extremely similar movies right now. This movie and The Accountant 2 with Ben Affleck where he plays his brother. I’m also watching Jon Bernthal right now in daredevil. I love that guy.
Anyway, I love action movies. The last movie that I saw on reviewed was Novacaine. I am very excited for the new Mission Impossible movie. There is a new Jason Statham movie out that I’m sure I will see you soon. I also just learned that he is doing a sequel to The Beekeper. The first one was a blast.
Now the thing about The Amateur is that it is like so many other movies but the execution steers clear of so many stereotypes. The following includes very minor to not really spoilers.
The stereotypes that this movie steers clear of: There is no new love interest. There is the love story of the protagonist losing his wife and thinking of her throughout the movie, but there is no new love interest with some 20 year old bikini model. There are no hand-to-hand fight scenes. No Rami Malek fighting 20 guys off with his barehands with a bunch of grunting.