This is a movie that’s really hard to make sense of. There are all sorts of stories going on but there’s hardly any dialogue and no background story. There’s a priest who likes to save souls, a prostitute hoping to find a guy to get her out of her world, an assassin ready to retire, and a couple of mysterious strangers. This goes on for a while and then none of the rest of the story makes any sense any more sense than the beginning did. Your guess is as good as mine as to why George Clooney would choose this movie.
This box office movie is a failure in the making. If it were a low budget or foreign film “The American” might do okay. Art movie buffs would enjoy all of its odd stares and strangely static situations. But it’s a Focus Features film and it’s being billed as the new “North by Northwest.” To top things off, this upcoming movie is coming out Labor Day weekend, a bad time for any movie to arrive in theaters.
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