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American Assassin
MEANRANK
60/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4023
- IMDb #4151
- Google retired #2572
- Rotten Tomatoes #3885
- Metacritic #4048
- Letterboxd #4289
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4538
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3311
- Metacritic Critics #3873
- Metacritic Audience #4053
- Douban #2502
- Kinopoisk #4019
- AlloCiné #2646
- Trakt #2614
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 34, highest is Google on 80. Critics average 40, everyone else 64.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A young man is brutally radicalized after his fiancée is killed in a terrorist attack. Driven by a desire for revenge, he trains himself into a lethal weapon. His skills attract the attention of a hardened Cold War veteran who runs a secret CIA initiative to train operatives for off-the-books missions. Their first assignment is to stop a mysterious operative from starting a world war in the Middle East.
Details
- Director
- Michael Cuesta
- Based on
- American Assassin by Vince Flynn
- Released
- 14 July 2017
- Country
- Hong Kong, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $33.0M
- Box office
- $67.2M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 1 nomination
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Awards & nominations
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| Taurus World Stunt Awards 2018 | Best fight | American Assassin | Nominee |
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