THE AMERICAN

I watched the whole movie. Really. I did. But, it was pretty painful to me to sit through the whole thing. I was continually tempted to eject it from the DVD player and plug in something that moved a little better and didn't take the viewer into the mind, such as it was, of an assassin on his last assignment.

George Clooney plays Edward -- or Jack -- in this foreign made and foreign styled film. The American (2010; R) was indeed made in Italy, so the context and scenery was just fine. But the slow pace and too-many moments of Jack/Edward contemplating who-knows-what just did nothing for the story. I think it could have used a good dose of l-leucine to speed it up a little.

Jack/Edward has been on one mission too many. He's aging and tired, and is falling in love with an Italian hooker. In the meantime, he's not only trying to fulfil his last assignment, he has, himself, become the target. Figures, doesn't it?

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