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Apr 19, 2018MICHAEL TAGGART MALONEY rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
This film is a monstrous frat boy fantasy. A young dude Brown graduate student and his beautiful bride-to-be are gunned down on a resort beach (probably based on the 2015 ISIS massacre in Tunisia). He then dedicates himself to a life of revenge, training in mixed martial arts, and trolling jihadist online chat rooms. Somehow, despite his cyber sophistication, he forgets to put a piece of painter's tape over his laptop camera (don't we all know to do that by now?) and the CIA is spying on him. The CIA recruits him, puts him through a quick assassin's school taught by Michael Keaton, and then sends him on the hunt for some stolen plutonium. That's where he encounters a rogue agent, played by Taylor Kitsch, with whom he battles mano a mano. All in all from what we know of Syria, the CIA spends more time training jihadists than assassins of jihadists. Furthermore, someone who dedicated his life to killing Salafi would not immediately change his focus to battling Shiite Iran. He would be more likely to go to work for Iran.