What is it about? Mike Howell (Jesse Eisenberg) is a pothead who 's only goal in life is to smoke pot and contemplate about the meaning of life while staring at the night sky. He has no ambition or any purpose in life. And yet somehow, he still manages to have a girlfriend (Kristen Stewart). As if that isn 't implausible enough, it seems that he is also a government agent with a set of deadly skills. He just doesn 't know it because he requires "activation" to actually be able to use his skills. When the governments decides he should be eliminated, his skills get activated and what follows is a string of explosions, dead bodies, and slightly below average jokes. Who should watch it? Should I watch it with my kid(s)? No. Way too many violent scenes. Is it good to watch on a date? I would consider it a "date movie", …show more content…
Is it based on something? No. Is this movie a must-see? A huge "NO". Similar movies like "American Ultra"? "Pineapple Express" and "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle" are way better. Judgment time! It seems nobody liked "American Ultra". Critics mangled it, and judging from the box office, general public didn 't like it either. It 's easy to see why. This was supposed to be an action/comedy movie with lots of humor and some cool action scenes. But, the jokes were horrendous. I think my sense of humor covers a broad spectre of jokes; I find a lot of things hilarious. And yet, this movie managed to stay out of that spectre. The action scenes were so generic, it 's not even funny. I 've seen better scenes in Steven Segal 's movies who had significantly smaller budget. The story is so ridiculous, it actually serves as something to laugh it, which is a good thing, since nothing else was funny. I realize that one shouldn 't expect a great story in this type of movies, but when there 's nothing else that works, you want at least something to cling on too. Kristen Stewart was NOT the worst thing about this movie, which speaks volumes. I