American Ultra (2015)Movies

A cartoonish sop to solipsistic Millennials and a humane sex farce. American Ultra rehashes post-Tarantino Nineties indie film cynicism of the sort that media shills enjoy when crowing about “the golden age of television.” Film actors Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart portray Mikey and Phoebe, two scraggly-haired stoner-lovers in flannel shirts. “We were the perfect f***ed-up couple,” Mikey narrates. “She was perfect. I was the f***-up.” He could also be describing the profane sweethearts of True Romance and Natural Born Killers, but a post-9/11 twist makes Mikey and Phoebe into CIA automatons who are programmed to kill — and who must be eliminated. The TV-worthy, pyrite-era theme of American Ultra implies our government...