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
in the Middle East.