Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Film myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.In espionage thriller The Amateur, Rami Malek plays Charles Heller, a brilliant, mild-mannered CIA data analyst who seeks revenge when his wife (Rachel Brosnahan) is killed by terrorists. His bosses are understandably incredulous when this unworldly screen jockey demands to pursue and kill the perpetrators in person. The old gag \u201cMission: Improbable\u201d comes to mind \u2014 but the premise is that sheer indomitable will can conquer all.A world away from his insouciantly swanky Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody, Malek here is oddly reticent and detached, with a curious coy way of pursing his entire face. Not entirely convincing as a steely-souled avenger, he seems most at ease skulking shiftily in a hoodie and baseball cap, as he did in Mr Robot, the cyber-thriller series that made his name.Based on a 1981 Robert Littell novel, The Amateur is of the same vigilante stuff as Charles Bronson vehicle Death Wish, the reactionary tenor of which shocked critics in 1974. These days, of course, we are more blas\u00e9 about whom action heroes kill \u2014 and how. Heller does some horrible things \u2014 including using a pollen overdose on a victim with allergies \u2014 but we are expected to cheer him on because he is motivated by love and grief, and because Malek is so disarmingly, geometrically baby-faced.Support includes Laurence Fishburne, casually sauntering in and out as Heller\u2019s avuncular hard-nut mentor; Michael Stuhlbarg, a villain so urbane that you wonder whether he has mislaid his white angora cat; and the brilliant Holt McCallany, from Mindhunter and The Iron Claw, seemingly doomed to play endless bull-necked, flat-topped authority figures.Directed by James Hawes, following his wartime biopic One Life, The Amateur harks back to 1990s\/2000s actioners such as Enemy of the State and the zippy Jason Bourne cycle. But this is a mechanical, sluggish affair, so dated it\u2019s more like Bourne Yesterday. \u00a0\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606\u2606In cinemas from April 11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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