High concept action comedies are everywhere you look these days, and have been for a long time, but the percentage of them that actually maximize the potential of their own premises is frustratingly minuscule, something American Ultra found out to its detriment back in the summer of 2015.
The concept alone painted the picture of a project that at the very least had ambitions on securing cult classic status, with Jesse Eisenberg’s small-town stoner wasting away his days getting high and scribbling a comic book about a simian superhero. However, his life gets turned upside down when it transpires that he’s actually a CIA-trained killing machine.