The best-selling book series by Vince Flynn that started in 1999 gets its first adaptation nearly 20 years later with the 2017 film that mercilessly killed off its own franchise potential. We discuss the story's dangerously unstable yet inexplicably successful protagonist and the manipulative government forces who champion him.
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"American Assassin review – shallow and self-congratulatory" (The Guardian)
"American Assassin" (RogerEbert.com)
"Review: American Assassin is crying out for a mercy kill" (The Globe and Mail)
