The American

There was barely enough dialogue to add a quote up here....

The American

2010

Date Viewed: Saturday September 5, 2010

This movie opens with George Clooney and a lovely lady canoodling by a fireplace somewhere in Sweden. Then they venture out and walk on the frozen lake. Suddenly, they stop when they come across footprints. George quickly pushes the lady behind a large, conveniently placed rock and bullets start flying around them. George kills the shooter and sends the lady to go call the police. At this point I turned to Bobby and said “He’s gonna shoot her” and he did. This movie was probably the most predictable movie I’ve ever seen. Or maybe it seemed so predictable that I actually had someone with me to voice my predictions instead of just watching by myself ;) We figured out every “twist and turn” and even the “twist” ending. The other thing was that it was boring! It was in general a very slow paced movie, but nothing really happened. You never find out why people are chasing him, you never get any kind of backstory on him, all he does is build a gun and sleep with a prostitute and looks over his shoulder at every turn. Was he once a good man? How and why did he become so paranoid and broken down? (So paranoid in fact, that he finds a gun in the prostitute’s purse and gets so on edge around her that he almost shoots her.. I mean she’s a prostitute, and two scenes ago you were just reading in the paper that there’s a prostitute killer on the loose! Get a grip man!) So to sum up, this was a lame lame movie. Don’t waste your money. It gets a few points just for the fact that George Clooney is in it… D-