Mysterious woman in sunglasses utters cryptic phrase to stoner convenience store clerk. Clerk becomes skilled assassin. Cue the mayhem.
American Ultra stars Jesse Eisenberg as the clerk and Kristen Stewart as his girlfriend. Topher Grace is some alphabet government agency dip$#!+. The trailer is awesome. Check it out after the jump.
American Ultra opens on August 21st.
AMERICAN ULTRA
In Theaters August 21
American Ultra is a fast-paced action comedy about Mike (Eisenberg), a seemingly hapless and unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe (Stewart), is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. In the blink of an eye, as his secret past comes back to haunt him, Mike is thrust into the middle of a deadly government operation and is forced to summon his inner action-hero in order to survive.
Directed by: Nima Nourizadeh
Written by: Max Landis
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Connie Britton, Topher Grace, Tony Hale, John Leguizamo, Bill Pullman & Walton Goggins
Produced by: Anthony Bregman, Kevin Frakes, Raj Brinder Singh, David Alpert, Britton Rizzio
Genre: Action/Comedy