Kristen Stewart best part of American Ultra
The likably awkward chemistry of Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg remains intact in American Ultra, a violent action-comedy that's half Pineapple Express, half The Bourne Identity, and not as good as either.
Stewart and Eisenberg, who starred together in the splendidly low-key summer comedy Adventureland, again come together as an appealing, mutually mop-headed tandem that matches Eisenberg's stuttering unease with Stewart's deadpan cool.
They play a flannel-wearing West Virginia couple, Mike and Phoebe, happy together despite Mike's weed habit, perpetual apologizing and panic attacks from just about anything that upsets his seemingly innate inertia. Looking at a car that's crashed into a tree, he wonders to Phoebe, placating and devoted, if he's the tree and she's the car.
