The Amateur

fantastic movie, but had way too much information and foreground and foreshadowing to be a movie! this should be a ongoing series that lasts for 9 seasons!

Perfect movie to leave on in your room for your cat while you’re at a house party on the balcony with your friends. It suffers from the contemporary thriller’s most fatal flaw: it mistakes competence porn for character development. The movie wants us to believe that Rami Malek’s grief-stricken cryptographer represents some kind of everyman pushed beyond his limits, but it can’t resist making him implausibly good at everything the plot requires—surveillance, combat, infiltration, psychological manipulation. This isn’t a story about an ordinary person discovering extraordinary reserves of determination; it’s a story about a screenwriter reverse-engineering a skill set from a desired outcome. The deeper problem is its central premise—that love can transform a desk jockey into a one-man army—as both psychologically realistic and morally justifiable, when it’s neither. Real grief doesn’t unlock hidden Jason Bourne programming; it makes you sloppy, obsessive, and prone to terrible judgment. But the movie needs Malek to be effective rather than authentic, so it gives him a magical combination of intellectual superiority and emotional purity that makes his violent transformation feel earned rather than pathological. The result is a revenge fantasy that thinks it’s a character study, complete with the kind of algorithmic plot mechanics that make every obstacle feel like a puzzle designed to be solved rather than a genuine impediment to justice. It’s taken for people who think they’re too smart for Taken.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Not the usual tough guy wins, rathert the man with intellect and resourcefulness.

The 1981 original version with John Savage and Christopher Plummer is excellent. I cannot recommend this lesser remake.

Started very slowly but really came on after the halfway point. Really enjoyed it.

Hot Garbage. Big budget, good actors. Horrible writing, directing and editing. You'd need a brain injury to be be able to suspend disbelieve.

Form now on I can say that charle Heller will be the American 007 if there is good development of the story .. it easy to be a series... end of all the movie was amazing.. with little fast action charle Heller will success to be American 007

Hey look, it's Mr Robot the movie. Introverted hacker with love interest, sees dead people, does crazy hacking stuff, wins against the bad guys - the end.

A more then "done" story so nothing new there. Malik saves it

A twist on the hugely successful Equalizer and Accountant style movies. Our hero is a CIA computer desk jockey who turns out to have hidden abilities which are uncovered only after his wife is murdered. Retribution is sort and after blackmailing his superiors minimal ops training is provided by CIA covert agent Henderson (Laurence Fishburne), Heller (Rami Malek) then sets about his revenge mission enlisting the help of fellow spy geek Inquiline (Caitriona Balfe) who has a similarly tragic back story. The premise is totally fetched but surprisingly well made with a Jon Bernthal cameo thrown in for provenance, we also have a very decent supporting cast. Overall then not bad at all, there clearly will be a sequel.