American Ultra is a fast-paced action comedy about Mike, a seemingly hapless and unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe, is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. In the blink of an eye, as his secret past comes back to haunt him, Mike is thrust into the middle of a deadly government operation and is forced to summon his inner action-hero in order to survive.
This movie contains 22 potentially triggering events.
Yes, one of the hitmen laughs in a deranged way and later we see his file labels him “psychotic” and “crazy”. It comes out the CIA has been training mental patients as hitmen.