The other night I watch "The American," starring George Clooney. The plot sounded really exciting and action-packed. Clooney plays an assassin, hiding out in Italy for one last assignment before he gets out of the game. First problem, Clooney isn't really an assassin in this. He shoots some people at the beginning of the movie for finding him, but that's really about it. His assignment in Italy is making this complex gun for a female client. It's very strange and doesn't really get explained how he's just an amazing rifle/sniper gun maker. He befriends a priest in the small Italian town he's staying in, but it just seems weird and out of place in the movie. Symbolism? He falls in love with a prostitute and they go on some dates. There's a part where they talk about how two prostitutes have been murdered lately and how she carries a gun now. He spies on her a lot. You think this means that the prostitute murderers will come after her or Clooney will hunt them down, but nothing ever comes of that storyline. Overall, it was a very slow-moving movie that didn't make a lot of sense. I was not a fan. I'm wondering how they talked Clooney into doing this movie. Maybe the script made it seem like everything made sense and was tied in together. Well, that was not the case for the actual movie. It's a 66 on Rotten Tomatoes, because the critics raved about the scenery and the subtlety of Clooney's performance. Yes, Italy is beautiful. That has nothing to do with the movie. Clooney was subdue, meaning not exciting at all. I would not recommend this movie.
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