The Amateur

Suspenseful and smart! A great movie to see on the big screen

I liked the Amateur (2025) I felt the movie had a great pace, great action, easy to follow and very entertaining.Never a dull moment. I would watch it again. Very entertaining and powerful story.

Great story, great movie!

I’d not read the book or seen the 1980s movie before watching Rami Maalek’s version so this was new ground, as it were. Definitely worth seeing. Solid performances all around and more suspenseful than I expected. Still, I wanted to read the original novel before reviewing the movie and I’m glad I did; the original book delves more into why the blackmail works that wasn’t explored enough in the movie. (No spoilers; let’s just say that what a writer would consider enough to blackmail top CIA officials in the 70s is called Tuesday in the 21st century’s CIA!🤣) Good enough for a widescreen tv but I was impressed with the’big screen experience.”

Fun movie. Some action and overall very enjoyable.

Great little spy thriller. Perfect for a matinee.

Watch it? Rent it? Skip it? Skip it. That was such a huge waste of a free movie ticket. The Amateur is about a pencil neck, computer geek working for the CIA who becomes an International CIA Agent overnight in order to find and kill those who killed his wife. Sounds stupid? You’re right. It is. It was. Somehow over a 2 hour period Rami Malek, an academy award winner, is transformed into a bullet proof CIA spy using his skills he learned from Lawrence Fishburne over a period of a few days and the help of YouTube videos (seriously). Jon Berthnal has a couple of very regrettable appearances, seriously, just a couple. Needless to say Rami learns how to hack into every building, access every camera, to evade the highly trained CIA agents sent to find him. He is bulletproof. Literally escaping a Seal team with automatic weapons. Ugh. It is just so cringe worthy. I feel more stupider just writing this. This was crap. Just total crap. A waste of 2 hours and a free movie ticket. Don’t waste your time or money watching this stupidity.

Great twists and turns!! Loved it!

Incredible!!!! Edge of your seat the entire movie…..Will purchase when released!!!

It was better than expected, definitely enjoyed the “cerebral” twist on the spy thriller genre.