‘The American’ Movie Rocked With George Clooney

By Guest Author on February 15th, 2011.
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Focus Features put out their action/drama movie named “The American” into theaters. I recently checked it out,and I think it delivered more drama than action to the table. Although,it did display some action scenes, they didn’t make up the brunt of this film. It stars: George Clooney, Violante Placido, Thekla Reuten,and Paolo Bonacelli.

“The American” centered around character Jack/Edward (George Clooney) who’s a hired hitman that goes to Italy when a job in Sweden ends pretty ugly. His boss tells him to go there and wait around for further instructions. After Jack arrives in Italy, he kind of befriends a priest. Then eventually decides to do another assignment to develop an intricate gun for a beautiful,mysterious contact named Mathilde (Thekla Reuten).

The flick goes on to mostly show how he builds the complex weapon,which was pretty interesting to view. Jack also creates a romantic relationship with a beautiful call girl named Clara (Violante Placido). It’s just business at the start,but then she eventually wants to start a relationship with him,and the two grow very close. Meanwhile, Jack has to always watch his back since the Swedes have located him,and are trying to kill him.

The movie contained some very nice action scenes including Jack chasing after an assassin on a motor scooter,and getting involved in a shootout from the outset of the film. However, the action scenes were pretty rare. It capped off with an excellent,suspenseful twist.

Although there wasn’t nearly as much action as I assumed there would be, it was still a very interesting film to see because the plot was really unique and George Clooney did a really good job. It also had some terrific nude scenes,and that always helps.

When the action did come about,it had me on the edge of my seat with the suspense it brought. I gave “The American” a B score because I was looking to see far more than it showed,but it was still good.

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