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AMERICAN ASSASSIN follows the rise of Mitch Rapp ( Dylan O'Brien ), a CIA black ops recruit under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley ( Michael Keaton ). The pair is then enlisted by CIA Deputy Director Irene Kennedy ( Sanaa Lathan ) to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on both military and civilian targets. Together the three discover a pattern in the violence leading them to a joint mission with a lethal Turkish agent ( Shiva Negar ) to stop a mysterious operative (Taylor Kitsch) intent on starting a World War. Please Leave A Comment-

Kill the Messenger largely succeeds at opening old conspiracy wounds. When is the truth too big to tell? 9/11 conspiracies dominated conversation afterwards, but recent history has been littered with one story of government betrayal after another. In Kill the Messenger , we see what was perhaps the first story to go viral, leading its writer to suffer greatly under its torrid but largely unsubstantiated revelations. The film largely succeeds, potentially paving its way to an Oscar invite in February, even if it's a bit short on specifics. San Jose Mercury News writer Gary Webb (Jeremy Renner) is writing stories about government seizures of drug homes in the 1990's, when a much bigger fish presents itself on his hook: for years, the American government has been pumping drugs into ghetto inner-city neighborhoods to fund the Nicaraguan Contra rebels against Communism. Webb can't help himself: a purveyor of the truth, he soon descends into a rabbit hole of contine