American Assassin

This movie does not even attempt to follow the story line of the books. This movie basically just stole the names from the book and did not follow the plot line at all. First is the era of the movie which in the book is in the late 1980's and early 1990's so smart phones weren't a thing. Also they completely changed how Mitch Rapp was recruited into the O'Ryan team. These major changes among many other is why this movie was completely wrong. American Assassin is a fantastic book leading into an exhilarating series for Mitch Rapp written by the late Vince Flynn, I would recommend that everyone go read the series. I will warn you though the book is 100% different from the movie excluding the names are for the most part the same.

Even the opening scene to the first buildup, was blown. In establishing Mitch Rapp as the guy fast-tracked for top CIA operations, when he finally gets to pay back the bad guys, instead of showing the audience what he's made of, another team goes in for the kill, ruining the pay-off. What was the point? And from there, it's just downhill. Dumb dialog--really dumb dialog, the actual book and character of Mitch Rapp created by Vince Flynn completely sidelined for a youngish oaf surrounded by ridiculous bad guys (operation is compromised, people exposed, killed, but for the bad guys, it's still business as usual and are somehow completely surprised when they find themselves in Rapp's cross hairs. Waste of a perfectly good store credit.

If you love the books steer clear of this disaster. Total Hollywood hatchet job on the character of Mitch Rapp. Its Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher part 2. Mitch Rapp is supposed to look like he is from the Middle East and they get the whitest guy they could find who stands out like a sore thumb in the desert. Quite frankly they make Rapp unlikable they way they developed his character with little redeeming quality. I literally skipped to the end just to say I saw how it ended.