WHO’S IN IT?
Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network), Kristen Stewart (Clouds of Sils Maria), Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights), Walton Goggins (Django Unchained), Topher Grace (Spider-Man 3), John Leguizamo (John Wick), Monique Ganderton (The Cabin in the Woods), Bill Pullman (Independence Day), Tony Hale (The Heat)
WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?
Nima Nourizadeh (Project X), director; Max Landis (Chronicle), writer; David Alpert (Spare Parts), Anthony Bregman (Foxcatcher), Kevin Scott Frakes (Say When), Britton Rizzio (film debut) and Raj Brinder Singh (Lessons in Love), producers; Marcelo Zarvos (Enough Said), composer; Michael Bonvillain (Zombieland), cinematographer; Andrew Marcus (American Psycho), editor
WHAT’S IT ABOUT?
Mike (Eisenberg) is a seemingly hapless and particularly unmotivated stoner who lives a quiet small-town life with his girlfriend Phoebe (Stewart). Unbeknownst to the pair of them, their life is not entirely what it seems – Mike is, in fact, a highly-trained and extremely lethal sleeper agent who is targeted for extermination and, in the midst of a deadly government operation, must rely on his newly-discovered skills to protect both himself, Phoebe, and their priceless stack of weed…
IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?
A stoner action comedy that deftly mixes the high-tech espionage of Alias with the pothead humour of Pineapple Express and, well, just about any other Seth Rogen comedy, American Ultra aims to deliver on its many action-based highs (and its many other “highs”).
