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Review: ‘American Ultra’ Aims High and Ends Up Middling

Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart are two performers who have such well-established onscreen personas – thanks to films like The Social Network and the Twilight saga – that it’s hard sometimes not to take that baggage into the theater with you whenever either actor appears in a film. Perhaps it’s fitting then that the duo who shared the screen in 2009 comedy Adventureland are back together in American Ultra, a film which allows each of them to stretch their acting muscles (if only slightly).

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