American Ultra

Mike Howell has an ordinary life as a young lad who smokes weed and works at a gas station. He loves his girlfriend and is going to marry her. But is everything really that simple? One unfortunate evening, defending himself from the scoundrels, he commits a double murder with the help of an ordinary spoon. Ideal combat training and living intelligence could not just appear out of nowhere. Mike, as it turns out, is a government agent who must be destroyed at all costs. But he is too well trained and trained for such a change of events. Read more For the director of the film, Nima Nourizadeh, this will be the second work after the film "Project X: Torvalys". According to him, the heroes of "Ultra-Americans" have a deeper human meaning in this crazy story. Max Landis, screenwriter, distinguished himself by working on the film "Chronicle", a story about teenagers who received superpowers. He tried to recreate the atmosphere of his favorite films, where genres are mixed during the development of the entire story. Jesse Eisenberg, who played Mike Howell, said that his brother Andrew helped him prepare for the role of a weed lover in "Ultra Americans". He taught him to walk and talk properly. The actor is sure that he would not have been able to pull off the role without his cousin. A few months before filming began, he traveled to Michigan to begin training for the fight scenes. With the help of experienced instructors, Jesse Eisenberg learned several Southeast Asian martial arts. It is interesting that Uma Thurman and Sharon Stone could play the character that eventually went to Connie Britton, due to differences in the shooting schedules of the stars.