The American (2010)

I dug this groove. Discuss.

Directed by Anton Corbijn I see.

I enjoyed this, should rewatch. From a point in George Clooney’s career when I still got excited about George Clooney films.

Think in one way i enjoyed it better coming to it now, with no actual idea about what clooney was going to bring

I rented this ... within the last couple years, perhaps, and that was how I was introduced to it, with little sense of what the plot was.

There’s a 70s eeriness to it. It’s like the places he’s in view him as an infection and are trying to reject him. The anti “Ronin.”

There’s a 70s eeriness to it. It’s like the places he’s in view him as an infection and are trying to reject him. The anti “Ronin.”

Really a great take. I like this movie very much - very quiet, punctuated by shockingly quick and quickly finished violence.

I like this a lot, too. Very well put together, and the pace makes it weirdly soothing. In some ways the overt Euro stylization reminds me of Hanna, though it's much lower-key than that.

Good George Clooney movies, ranked:

Michael Clayton
Ocean's 11
Out of Sight
The American
Three Kings

Three Kings is one I’ve always meant to watch!

That is a very good take RC

But at the same time theres no getting away from the ways in which it is like Ronin, too