What role does emotion play in violence? This question lies at the core of the schlocky spy yarn “American Assassin,” though the film doesn’t offer any clear answer. Based on the book by Vince Flynn ...

With 16 books and counting, American Assassin hopes to turn Mitch Rapp into a new Hollywood action hero. Dylan O’Brien plays the character created by author Vince Flynn. Rapp turns to Stan Hurley ...

Rapp sneers at everyone: bureaucrats, all religions, the French. This launchpad has big ambitions and a whirlwind script where bullets zing in Malta, Ibiza, Istanbul, Tripoli, Romania, Roanoke, and ...

This is shaping up to be a big year for hunky heartthrob Dylan O’Brien — -- This is shaping up to be a big year for hunky heartthrob Dylan O’Brien, whose new action thriller, “American Assassin,” ...

American Assassin doesn’t rewrite the book as far as action thrillers go, but in this first of a hoped-for many installments it meets the test of what audiences expect from this genre — and does it ...

LOS ANGELES — Dylan O'Brien recalls the stress-filled moments he underwent before boarding the plane last September to shoot American Assassin. O'Brien, 26, had spent the previous six months ...

How does an actor research the secretive CIA? It’s not like you can just Google – ‘How to be a CIA Agent?’ Right? Well, actually, of course you can. I just performed the most cursory of Google ...

Dylan O'Brien in "American Assassin." It’s possible that Dylan O’Brien may someday grow into the role of Mitch Rapp — the dangerously lethal terrorist-hunter hero of the late Vince Flynn’s popular ...

Michael Keaton and Dylan O’Brien are CIA operatives trying to prevent World War III in the movie “American Assassin.” Sounds like weekend fun for the whole family! Deco CIA operative, Chris Van Vliet ...

“American Assassin” aims to be a political thriller with a contemporary mindset, but it feels like it was made for audiences from the 1990s that didn’t get enough Tom Clancy movies. Dylan O’Brien, ...