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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: The marketing essentially tried to sell it as ''Film/TheBourneIdentity'' as a stoner comedy, which fell very flat to begin with. Those who saw it found out that there is actually very little "stoner comedy" in the plot.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: The marketing essentially tried to sell it as ''Film/TheBourneIdentity'' as a stoner comedy, which fell very flat to begin with. Those And then those who saw it found out that there is actually very little "stoner comedy" in the plot.
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* DearNegativeReader: After the film's disappointing opening week, Creator/MaxLandis went on [[http://www.businessinsider.com/american-ultra-screenwriter-max-landis-twitter-rant-2015-8 a Twitter rant]] that most people interpreted as him saying that the film's failure was due to [[NeverMyFault audiences not appreciating original ideas]]. The rant was more about the state of Hollywood than detractors of the movie. With all the reboots, sequels, and movies based on books or comic books, you'd be hard pressed to find someone who hasn't complained about Hollywood's lack of originality in the past decade. Landis has explained that his point was that studios are less likely to fund a new IP than a movie that's based on an existing property, and the failure of American Ultra will be used as a scapegoat for that point. Additionally, the rant didn't even mention audiences, except for the implication that the quality of the movie doesn't factor in to how many people see it.
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* DearNegativeReader: After the film's disappointing opening week, Creator/MaxLandis went on [[http://www.businessinsider.com/american-ultra-screenwriter-max-landis-twitter-rant-2015-8 a Twitter rant]] that most people interpreted as him saying that the film's failure was due to [[NeverMyFault audiences not appreciating original ideas]]. The rant was more about the state of Hollywood than detractors of the movie. With all the reboots, sequels, and movies based on books or comic books, you'd be hard pressed to find someone who hasn't complained about Hollywood's lack of originality in the past decade. Landis has explained that his point was that studios are less likely to fund a new IP than a movie that's based on an existing property, and the failure of American Ultra will be used as a scapegoat for that point. Additionally, the rant didn't even mention audiences, except for the implication that the quality of the movie doesn't factor in to how many people see it.
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* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: Midway through the film, Mike is felled by a seemingly-fatal dose of toxic gas employed by TOUGHGUY troops. Although [[spoiler:Phoebe]] administers a countermeasure and sad music plays over a {{Montage}} of their life together... but there's still an hour left in the film.
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* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: Midway through the film, Mike is felled by a seemingly-fatal dose of toxic gas employed by TOUGHGUY troops. Although [[spoiler:Phoebe]] administers a countermeasure and sad music plays over a {{Montage}} of their life together... but there's still an hour left in the film. Plus, the film opened with Mike in questioning after the events of the body of the film; he wouldn't be around for that questioning if he hadn't survived.
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* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: Midway through the film, Mike is felled by a seemingly-fatal dose of toxic gas employed by TOUGHGUY troops. Although [[spoiler:Phoebe]] administers a countermeasure and sad music plays over a {{Montage}} of their life together... but there's still an hour left in the film.
* OneSceneWonder: John Leguizamo only appears for a couple of scenes as Mike's drug dealer, Rose, but his {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies, easygoing nature and helpful demeanor make him one of the most memorable characters in the film.
* TheWoobie: Mike himself. Prone to panic attacks whenever he detoxes from drugs, stuck in a dead-end job at a convenience store, unable to give Phoebe the kind of life he thinks she deserves and subjected to random harassment by the local sheriff. Even when he proposes to Phoebe at the end of the film, they both end up being tazed by the cops. Luckily, the events of the film help him get over his situation, and by the end, he's become a suave CIA operative.
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* OneSceneWonder: John Leguizamo only appears for a couple of scenes as Mike's drug dealer, Rose, but his {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies, easygoing nature and helpful demeanor make him one of the most memorable characters in the film.
* TheWoobie: Mike himself. Prone to panic attacks whenever he detoxes from drugs, stuck in a dead-end job at a convenience store, unable to give Phoebe the kind of life he thinks she deserves and subjected to random harassment by the local sheriff. Even when he proposes to Phoebe at the end of the film, they both end up being tazed by the cops. Luckily, the events of the film help him get over his situation, and by the end, he's become a suave CIA operative.
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