Director:
Nima NourizadehWriter:
Max LandisStars:
Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Connie Britton |Genres:
Action | ComedyCountry:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
4 September 2015 (UK)Production Co:
PalmStar Media, Bridge Finance Company, The, Circle of ConfusionSound Mix:
Auro 11.1 | Dolby DigitalColor:
Color
MOVIE INFO :
American Ultra is a fast-paced action comedy about Mike (Eisenberg), a seemingly hapless and unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe (Stewart), is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. In the blink of an eye, as his secret past comes back to haunt him, Mike is thrust into the middle of a deadly government operation and is forced to summon his inner action-hero in order to survive.
Story line :
In true stoner fashion, the upcoming cannabis-centric cinematic slacker project,American Ultra missed a more apropos 4/20 unveiling of material by nearly a month. However, more details about its plot have now finally been revealed. The main cast, reuniting Adventureland couple Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart, apparently looks to be going on a baked, genre-bending romp.
In a report by MTV News unveiling the first image and posters from the film, a rundown of the movie’s plot is also provided, setting up the crazy adventure.American Ultra features Jesse Eisenberg’s Mike as, you guessed it, a slacker/stoner type wandering aimlessly in a weed-fogged ambivalence. The only thing he has going in his life, besides a ton of THC, is his girlfriend, Kristen Stewart’s Phoebe. However, in a bizarre call to the hero’s journey that even Joseph Campbell couldn’t have possibly imagined, Mike discovers that he was actually a sleeper agent trained in a secret government program. Soon finding himself an inconvenient loose end by some belligerent bureaucrats, he makes off like a baked Jason Bourne and finds himself on the run with Phoebe at his side.
Yes, it appears that Mike could be the first stoner in history whose paranoid inclination that the government is out to get them is, indeed, accurate. The film’s apparent genre-blending stylistic ambitions also seem to fit the creative team perfectly. Director, Nourizadeh, whose 2012 film, Project X used a title that made us mistake it for a film about Matthew Broderick and a test chimp, would showcase an inventive (though divisive) take on the teen party movie genre. Additionally, the script was penned by Max Landis, who wrote the screenplay for 2012’s quasi-vérité "teens with superpowers" film Chronicle. Thus, we can probably expect more stylistic experimentations than the ones to which we’ve already been apprised.
In an interview with MTV, American Ultra director Nima Nourizadeh also dished on the details regarding his upcoming stoner story, revealing some surprisingly stylistic turns. While stars, Eisenberg and Stewart, as characters Mike and Phoebe, are portraying young love with a Pineapple Express sort of flair, they also seem to be carrying a deeper human element to their insane story.
In a report by MTV News unveiling the first image and posters from the film, a rundown of the movie’s plot is also provided, setting up the crazy adventure.American Ultra features Jesse Eisenberg’s Mike as, you guessed it, a slacker/stoner type wandering aimlessly in a weed-fogged ambivalence. The only thing he has going in his life, besides a ton of THC, is his girlfriend, Kristen Stewart’s Phoebe. However, in a bizarre call to the hero’s journey that even Joseph Campbell couldn’t have possibly imagined, Mike discovers that he was actually a sleeper agent trained in a secret government program. Soon finding himself an inconvenient loose end by some belligerent bureaucrats, he makes off like a baked Jason Bourne and finds himself on the run with Phoebe at his side.
Yes, it appears that Mike could be the first stoner in history whose paranoid inclination that the government is out to get them is, indeed, accurate. The film’s apparent genre-blending stylistic ambitions also seem to fit the creative team perfectly. Director, Nourizadeh, whose 2012 film, Project X used a title that made us mistake it for a film about Matthew Broderick and a test chimp, would showcase an inventive (though divisive) take on the teen party movie genre. Additionally, the script was penned by Max Landis, who wrote the screenplay for 2012’s quasi-vérité "teens with superpowers" film Chronicle. Thus, we can probably expect more stylistic experimentations than the ones to which we’ve already been apprised.
In an interview with MTV, American Ultra director Nima Nourizadeh also dished on the details regarding his upcoming stoner story, revealing some surprisingly stylistic turns. While stars, Eisenberg and Stewart, as characters Mike and Phoebe, are portraying young love with a Pineapple Express sort of flair, they also seem to be carrying a deeper human element to their insane story.
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