About this time Edward also becomes involved with Clara (Violante Placido), a prostitute who ultimately wins his heart. Pavel gives Edward the job of building a gun for a woman named Mathilde (Thekla Reuten), and he accepts the assignment with the concomitant agreement that it will be his last one. Here he goes by the name of Edward and masquerades as a photographer. Pavel tells Jack that it’s too dangerous for him to say in Rome and suggests that he go to a small village, but Jack doesn’t like it there and moves to another little town. But he wants to get out of the business because he’s tired of running from some Swedes who want to kill him. As the film continues, we learn that Jack is an assassin who also is adept at building weapons. Jack ends up in Rome, where he makes a phone call to a guy named Pavel (Johan Leysen), who apparently is his boss. Then he tells Ingrid to go back to the cabin and call the police, and at this point the biggest surprise in the film occurs, and everything goes downhill from here. Soon another guy shows up, and Jack promptly shoots him. When the two of them decide to take a walk in the snowy wilderness, Ingrid notices some fresh footprints, and Jack suddenly grabs her and begins running for cover in the woods. We don’t know why they are there, but it doesn’t really matter. “The American” opens in Sweden, where Jack or Edward (For some reason Clooney’s character has two names.) is holed up in an isolated cabin with a lover, Ingrid (Irina Bjorklund). This film is no exception, and at times it looked as if Clooney were so bored by the part he was playing that he also might drift off into slumber land. The one thing the film does do, however, is continue the unexplainable mystique of why people flock to Clooney’s movies in which he constantly plays the same character with different names. But I’m betting that the first 15 minutes will cure your insomnia and leave you slumbering happily in your seat. Now if you manage to stay awake, you’ll soon realize that there is more excitement in an episode of “SpongeBob SquarePants” than you will find in this lackluster snooze fest. Ross” Clooney in one of the slowest and most boring “thrillers” ever to have the misfortune of making it to the silver screen. If you are having trouble sleeping, you might want to go see “The American,” starring George “I’m-Always-Dr.
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