The Amateur [Movie Review]

The Amateur [Movie Review] | Ever since I saw the trailer, I know I have to watch this one. 

It is Rami Malek and it's a spy-espionage movie. And I do hope that it is good.

SYNOPSIS

The Amateur (2025) Trivia

• Starring: Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Caitríona Balfe, Michael Stuhlbarg & Laurence Fishburne
• Director: James Hawes
• Producer: Hutch Parker, Dan Wilson, Rami Malek & Joel B. Michaels
• Production Company: Hutch Parker Entertainment

• Distributed by: 20th Century Studios
• Release date: April 11, 2025
• Running time: 123 minutes
• Rating: MA
• Country: United States
• Language: English
• IMDb: 6.7/ 10
• Tomatometer: 61%
• Metascore: 52%
• This spy remake hits screens 44 years after the original debuted in 1981.
• Rami Malek landed the lead role thanks to his chilling turn as Bond villain Safin in No Time to Die (2021). 
• Movie Insider has three pages on the film — two on Rami Malek’s version and one on Hugh Jackman’s scrapped adaptation. 

Charlie Heller, a CIA cryptographer is more comfortable with code than conflict. In between decrypting classified files and restoring an old Cessna gifted by his wife Sarah, life feels almost peaceful. But everything changes when Sarah heads off on a business trip to London and never comes back.

Grief hits hard when Charlie learns Sarah has died in a terrorist attack. But the deeper he digs, the more things stop adding up. Leaks from a mysterious source called “Inquiline” expose secrets that shake the CIA to its core. A few events that had happened before where drone strikes were disguised as suicide bombings and high-level coverups that cost innocent lives make Charlie think hard about his company.

Driven by loss and a thirst for justice, Charlie pieces together the truth behind Sarah’s murder. He uncovers a rogue team of international assassins with each more dangerous than the last and all linked to one name: Schiller, a ghost-like figure believed to be untouchable. 

The CIA claims they’re handling it. Charlie doesn’t wait and he strongly believes that there are more to uncover.

From training in covert ops to crafting bombs with unsettling ease, the once-mild-mannered codebreaker turns into a man with a mission. But revenge isn’t simple. Colonel Henderson told him that he is not a killer - he could never pull the trigger to kill anyone.

Each confrontation with the assassins pushes Charlie closer to the edge and further from the life he once knew. Along the way, he’s pursued by CIA hitmen, betrayed by those he once trusted and forced to rely on unlikely allies, including Inquiline whose true identity brings even more questions.

As Charlie follows a deadly trail across Europe and beyond, he starts to realize that the truth behind Sarah’s death runs deeper and more sinister than any one man. And bringing it all into the light may cost him everything. His soul included.

Would you risk everything to expose the truth, even if it means becoming the villain?

MY REVIEW

What I Like:  

• Beautiful cinematography.   
• Marvellous acting by Rami
• I love the plot - a nerd becomes a hero. 

What I Don't Like:

• None I would say. But I would love to see Charlie becomes an agent at the end.

Will I Watch It Again: Yes, I would.

Overall: 4.7/ 5.0

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