American Assassin Gets Coveted ’18’ Rating In UK

One of the best actors ever, Michael Keaton, will star in the upcoming thriller American Assassin.  It could be damned good, because the movie also features Scott Adkins.  Even better though, the movie now has a rating in the UK.

An ’18’ rating is always a coveted rating in the UK, it basically translates to hard-R and doesn’t seem to be around in too many action/thrillers these days.  Thanks to mt1974kc for the alert.  Check out the synopsis and pics below.  Keaton looking cool as hell!

A CIA black ops recruit, Mitch Rapp (O’Brien), is devastated by the loss of his girlfriend to a terrorist attack. CIA Deputy Director Irene Kennedy (Lathan) assigns Stan Hurley (Keaton) to train a grief-stricken but highly motivated Rapp how to thwart terrorist operations and hunt the perpetrators. Together they investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on military and civilian targets and discover a pattern in the violence that leads them to a joint mission with a lethal Turkish agent (Negar) to stop a mysterious operative (Kitsch) intent on starting a world war in the Middle East.