I'm not sure what I thought of The American as a whole. I know I didn't like most of it. Clooney is a hit man exiled to a small Italian town while trouble blows over. There is very little meaningful dialogue but many medium distance shots of him off center in a mostly empty frame to make it really clear how isolated he is, just in case his brooding and lack of human interaction was missed. The attitude towards plot can be summed up as roughly "You've all seen this story before. You'd be as bored as us if we spent screen time working through the details, right?"
But even if most of it felt like someone working from a film school textbook on melancholy, I was a bit surprised in the final scenes that I cared about the characters and they had some real impact. So not a complete dog of a film.
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