Mitch Rapp (Dylan O'Brien) and his girlfriend was on holiday at a beach when a group of terrorists attacked. His girlfriend was killed and that triggered Mitch to train himself to be an assassin so that he could get revenge. 

If you read the synopsis above, you might think that this is a typical revenge story. Welp, it's not. The revenge part is just short. Then, the main character got sucked into a world of spies and CIA shit. I have to say, the revenge part, which is at the first 10 to 20 minutes of the film is very intriguing for me. The rest of the film?? Hmm... Not so much. To be honest, this movie is boring. 

The story is kinda ridiculous. A man who train himself to be an assassin is hired by the CIA to do some shit. Of course, when talking about CIA, then ought to be some secret program to train people into spies. The main character got thrown into that secret training program for, I don't know, maybe 2 days??? and then got permission to join a mission. Oh wow. 

The training scenes are hilarious. I did not mean it in a good way. It's unnecessary and it's just a poor excuse to introduce the main character to the Micheal Keaton's character - Stan Hurley, the secret program instructor. There's nothing cool about the training scenes. I thought it was going to be a tough program but nope. 

Furthermore, the pacing is slow. Characters spend too much time talking to each other about how people should not take this shit personal and only focus on the mission. For fuck's sake, there isn't even a love scene. You know, if a movie is bad, but there's a scene where the main characters make love for a few seconds, you would be thinking "Welp, at least the sex scene is good.". Nope, nope. This movie has no sex scene, no lovey dovey. There is a moment of tension between the main character and his female colleague and they were in a bathroom. But nope. He beat the shit out of her. Literally. 

In terms of acting, Dylan O'Brien did an okay job. I think the material he was given to work with is lacking something. The character lacks... conviction? Like he doesn't know whether he's a brat with a mouth or just an emo guy. 

The script also does not bring the best out of Micheal Keaton. Like, what a waste. Micheal kept talking and talking and talking, it bored the shit out of me. 

Apart from that, the action is meh. There are no over the top spy action shit. Just regular shooting and stabbing and brawling. The main character spends too much time fighting nobodies. For example, there's this scene where he breaks into an apartment and he takes so much time to kill one bodyguard. Like hell, kill him already!! The title of the movie suggests that this movie would be filled with cool assassinations. Hahahahahaha.... Nope. No assassinations in here. 

All in all, I would recommend you to skip this movie because it is boring. The story is uninteresting, the action is not intriguing, and the characters just won't stop talking. 

1 star out of 5.