Stunning debut of THE AMERICAN trailer
"I don't think God is very interested in me father"... Clooney as an assassin on his final job in Italy.
Has there ever been a movie about a lone assassin that ISN'T centred on his final assignment, and which ISN'T complicated by an old friend, the company he works for, a femme fatale - or a mixture of all three? No matter. Originality is not found in plot but in character nuances, performance and how the story unfolds. In Anton Corbijn's second feature film (his first, the black and white biopic of Ian Curtis titled 'Control') - 'The American', a unreservedly embracing grey-haired George Clooney is an asssasin on his final take-out in a smalltown rural village in southern Italy. He is uneasy about his last mission (his boss tells him to go with it, he doesn't even have to pull the trigger), probably because he has seen so many movies where final jobs don't turn out so smoothly. 
A noticeably older Clooney (compared with say, his look in 'Burn After Reading') is perfect for this setting, and there's a very non-Hollywood elegance of style to the trailer that screams back to the old school Hollywood actor in Europe thriller, a movie like the under-rated'French Connection Part II' or Harrison Ford's 'Frantic'. In the tradition of those movies, Clooney is just about the only recognizable name in a small cast of otherwise unknowns (with the exception of character actor Bruce Altman). The colour tones and slow burning mood atmosphere also remind me of the excellent Jim Jarmusch movie from last year 'The Limits of Control' and 'In Bruges'. It's a sleek trailer for what looks to be a arty mood Euro-thriller. A smart movie for a thinking audience that is very welcomed in these parts, and proof that the video game adaptation of 'Hitman' could have been a good movie if the right team had boarded it. 'The American' is due out on September 1st in the U.S. but has no U.K. date just yet.
A noticeably older Clooney (compared with say, his look in 'Burn After Reading') is perfect for this setting, and there's a very non-Hollywood elegance of style to the trailer that screams back to the old school Hollywood actor in Europe thriller, a movie like the under-rated'French Connection Part II' or Harrison Ford's 'Frantic'. In the tradition of those movies, Clooney is just about the only recognizable name in a small cast of otherwise unknowns (with the exception of character actor Bruce Altman). The colour tones and slow burning mood atmosphere also remind me of the excellent Jim Jarmusch movie from last year 'The Limits of Control' and 'In Bruges'. It's a sleek trailer for what looks to be a arty mood Euro-thriller. A smart movie for a thinking audience that is very welcomed in these parts, and proof that the video game adaptation of 'Hitman' could have been a good movie if the right team had boarded it. 'The American' is due out on September 1st in the U.S. but has no U.K. date just yet.
