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July 21, 2025 17 mins
After four extremists murder his wife, a CIA agent embarks on a journey of revenge to eliminate all those responsible, while his superiors try to stop him. The Title: THE AMATEUR (2025) Cast: Rami Malek as Charles "Charlie" Heller Laurence Fishburne as Robert "Hendo" Henderson Rachel Brosnahan as Sarah Heller Caitríona Balfe as Inquiline / Davies Michael Stuhlbarg as Horst Schiller Holt McCallany as Alex Moore Julianne Nicholson as Samantha O'Brien Danny Sapani as Caleb Horowitz Jon Bernthal as Jackson O'Brien ("The Bear") Adrian Martinez as Carlos Marc Rissmann as Mishka Blazhic Joseph Millson as Ellish Barbara Probst as Gretchen Frank Alice Hewkin as Ali Park Henry Garrett as Chief of Staff
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This story begins with Charlie, a man who works decrypting
and analyzing many secret things at the CIA. In the morning,
we see him saying goodbye to his wife because she
will be traveling for five days to London, so he
gives her instructions on what to do in his absence
while having a little coffee. After waiting for the taxi
to arrive for his wife, he heads to work, where

(00:20):
he runs into a friend who has just returned from
a trip. He tells Charlie that he has something he
can help him with, so Charlie just replies that he'll
go with him. Later, when he arrives at work, we
see him talking to someone he doesn't know. It's clear
he's sharing a lot of confidential information since he sends
him a highly secret file. He tells him that no
one can know what he has, much less leak it

(00:43):
because the CIA is also involved in that file. Later,
Charlie goes out to eat and during conversations with his coworkers,
we see the friend he ran into earlier at work again.
Now we know he's a secret agent, and they ask
Charlie how he knows him. He just says he saved
his life. Life. Back at work, Charlie can't open the
files because they come in a code that at first glance,

(01:06):
can't be deciphered or extracted. After receiving a call from
his wife telling him she arrived safely, Charlie heads to
a secret room where not even sound can escape to
extract the files. Here it is revealed that drones were
sent that attacked Danish soldiers, approved by Chief Moore, who
is the director of the CIA. Helped me reach ten

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Let's continue. Distressed At night, Charlie tries to call his wife,
who doesn't answer, and he only leaves her a voicemail.
The next day, when he arrives at work, we see

(01:49):
Chief More in Charlie's office, thinking he's going to be
interrogated about what he discovered. Charlie is accompanied by Moore
through the offices because he has devastating news. There was
an attack at his wife's hotel, and he is informed
that she died. When he doesn't believe them, they turn
on the TV, where it says that four men entered
the hotel and took hostages, including his wife. Charlie still

(02:12):
doesn't believe it, but Chief More plays a recording where
through security cameras, it is clear that it is indeed
Charlie's wife. Charlie is devastated. We see how he's even
neglected his own home and that he wants to know
what's happening with the investigation, where basically the officer handling
his case tells him that when they know something, they
will let him know. Then we see that Charlie receives

(02:34):
his wife's body and her suitcase, where we see she
had left him a gift, a kind of puzzle. Motivated,
Charlie begins to investigate thoroughly what happened on the day
of the ACAC in London, where basically the four men
who entered the hotel were going to meet with some investors,
but something went wrong. They killed two people and in
order to get out of the hotel, they took hostages.
Here we discovered that they took Charlie's wife because she

(02:55):
was trying to save someone else, and thanks to Charlie's work,
he manages to identify three of the men who attack
the hotel, a Russian, an African, and Charlie's wife's killer schiller.
He says they work for corrupt politicians or terrorists, and
that the one who gets them the jobs is a
woman named Getchen, so that's where they need to start.
Charlie tells all this to Chief Moore and the officer

(03:16):
in charge of his case, but seeing that they don't react,
he concludes that they already knew and didn't tell him
anything because what they want is the whole network, and
that's why they waited. They recommend that Charlie speak with
a psychologist who will determine if he's ready to return
to work. In the session, Charlie seems quite upset because
nothing has been done, but the psychologist tells him that
everything depends on him to overcome it, so Charlie gets

(03:36):
to work. Prince the files that his friend whom we
haven't met yet, sent him and takes them to Chief
More at his house. He begins telling him about many
more attacks that have been covered up, not just the
drone incident. Chief more, quite angry, begins to accuse him
of knowing nothing and tells him to calm down, but
Charlie is not intimidated, threatening to tell the CIA director
or the press. Once things calm down, Charlie reveals that

(03:58):
he installed some device on his computer so that if
he doesn't show up every five hours, all this information
will be sent to the press. Chief Moore then asks
him what he wants. Charlie wants to kill those who
killed his wife, Sarah. He only wants a chance for
them to train him and give him the skills to
do it with his own hands. So, more out of
obligation than willingness, they enlist him with Henderson, a rather

(04:20):
tough colonel, and it will be he who gives him
the training, which, according to him, is quite hard and
may not leave him alive. Meanwhile, Caleb, the officer in
charge of investigating Sarah's death, searches for the device Charlie mentioned,
discovering that it was a magnetic strip where all the
files are stored. So they get going and based on
the city's security cameras, they managed to discover that she
might be hiding in a bar she went to several times,

(04:42):
and that was the case. She hit it on a
disc that was inside a jukebox. On the other hand,
we see that Charlie is not very good at shooting.
He needs the target to be quite close in order
to hit it. But what he is good at is
making homemade explosives, which surprises Henderson. Then they create his
new idea and with some rough methods, they make him
learn it by heart. One night, we realize that Charlie

(05:05):
had placed microphones and listens to everything in Caleb's office.
When they discovered that it was all a trap. Charlie
never took any file from the CIA. It had all
just been a setup to get what he wanted. So
when Moore and Caleb realized this, they send Henderson to
well get rid of Charlie, but when he gets to
Charlie's room, we discover that he has already escaped. When

(05:26):
Moore and Caleb find out he's escaped, they go back
to check the documents and realize Charlie's microphones. Charlie, now
in London, becomes aware of this and disconnects. Here, Charlie
remembers when his wife gave him a small plane as
a gift. Although damaged, Charlie gets excited and starts to
repair it, which is what we see him doing when
the movie begins. Now in Paris, we see that Charlie

(05:48):
is still looking forgets Chin and starts watching a bakery
she visits very often. Just before it closes, Charlie sees
her and starts tracking her via her phone, leading him
to her house. Charlie waits for her to leave to
sneak in. He gets to the door, and since he
doesn't have a key, he watches a YouTube tutorial on
how to pick a lock, and unbelievably he succeeds. Once

(06:10):
inside the apartment, he takes a photo of her calendar,
which has an address a clinic called Santa Evangelina, which
Charlie also photographs. Then he comes across a gun in
one of the drawers he's searching through. Though he hesitates
at first, he eventually takes it for later. Here things
get complicated because gets Chin is very close to coming
into her house, so Charlie hides in the stairwell. Though

(06:33):
he seems determined to shoot, he ends up not doing
it and runs out of the place completely shaken. Charlie
makes it back to where he's staying, and in his state,
he has a hallucination where his wife prepares the bed
for him to sleep. After that, he starts researching the
clinic and finds out that it's a clinic that treats
allergies and asthma. Gets Chin is a patient there, so

(06:54):
the next morning, Charlie buys a lot of flowers, almost
all the ones from a stand, and heads to the clinic.
We see that Getschen is running tests in a chamber
where the oxygen is regulated, so Charlie shuts down the
monitoring system, so the doctor comes out to see what's
going on. Once inside, Charlie locks himself in with Getschen

(07:14):
and puts her inside the chamber, disconnecting the oxygen through
the pipe that supplies the chamber. He starts pouring all
the pollen from the flowers he bought to intensify Getchen's
cargie while asking her about Shiller. Seeing Getchen's refusal to
say where Schiller is, Charlie decides to let her go,
starting a fight. Charlie pulls out his gun, but it's

(07:35):
useless because Getchen takes it from him in a second,
and a chase begins. Getchten manages to run out of
the clinic, but is hit by a truck that takes
her life. Charlie just grabs her phone and runs off
at a bus terminal, he asks for a ticket to Marseilles.
Already in the city, Charlie enters a night club to
have a few drinks. He approaches the dance floor, but

(07:57):
among so many people, he hallucinates again with his wife,
who seems to be dancing in the distance. This is
interrupted when he sees that Henderson has found him, so
he runs to the exit and manages to lose him
on the street. He enters another bar, where Henderson finds
him again. At that moment, Charlie goes straight to the bathroom,
but seeing there's no exit, he calmly comes out and

(08:19):
drinks a beer with Henderson. He starts telling him that
he's surprised because he didn't think he'd made it this far,
but that it's time to give up and let him
do what he has to do. Then, Charlie reveals that
he planted a bomb in the bathroom, which explodes right
at that moment. Taking advantage of the commotion, Charlie manages
to escape and takes a nap on a nearby bench.

(08:39):
When he wakes up, he contacts the mysterious person who
gave him the files, whom he calls the tenant. This
person gives him specific instructions to get to Istanbul in Turkey.
Once there, he says he'll meet him in a cafe
and give him a book. When he arrives, Charlie starts
looking at everyone and sends a message to the tenant.
In the same moment, he sees a man receive a message.

(09:02):
When he's about to approach him, a woman stops him
and hands him a book, making him realize that she
is the tenant. Later at her house, Charlie's bofari tells
Charlie to do some shopping and that she'll meet him
somewhere else in half an hour. Once there, the tenant
tells her her story. It turns out that her husband
worked for the CIA, but before that he was in

(09:23):
the KGB, meaning the CIA of Russia, and basically the
CIA killed him for having belonged to the KGB. After that,
she wanted to continue helping and providing secrets so that
agents like Charlie could do something about it. Arriving at
the tenant's house, they set a plan in motion. They
have to get to Schiller, who is the boss of

(09:43):
the Russian and the African, since there is basically no
way for him to come to light, they will hunt
them down one by one, starting with the Russian, who
is the most eccentric and the one who likes to
be in the public eye. Here we see Charlie's hacking
skills because with just one photo taken from the Russian
social media, he figured out where he was and who
he was with. He's in Madrid with his girlfriend, so

(10:07):
they head over there. Meanwhile, in the CIA, Caleb is
keeping a close eye on these three in case Charlie
decides to take action. During a dinner, Moore and the
CIA woman talk about Moore's not so good operations with her,
asking to be kept informed of everything, to which Moore
simply ignores her. So the head of the CIA leaves,

(10:27):
and already in the car, they show her that Henderson
is in Madrid under Moore's orders, prompting her to send
one of her own agents to Madrid as well. Charlie
and the tenant already know where the Russian is, so
it's time to act. The tenant suggests shooting him, but
due to Charlie's terrible aim, he comes up with a
better plan. The Russian will be at a pool on

(10:49):
the rooftop of a hotel that's between two buildings and
held up by a system of air bags that support
the pool, so Charlie builds a machine that depressurizes those
air bags. Once set, Charlie approaches the Russian while he's
having some drinks at the hotel bar, Charlie feels like
a man is following him. The tenant investigates who the

(11:09):
man is and finds out he's also from the CIA,
but then realizes that Henderson is there. The tenant asks
to abort the mission, but Charlie, determined, goes ahead with
the plan. At the pool, Charlie asks the Russian where
Schiller is, to which he refuses to answer. Then Charlie
explains the machine he built, but the Russian doesn't believe him,

(11:31):
so Charlie activates it, breaking the pool's glass and causing
the Russian to fall to his death. After that, the
tenant gives him instructions on how to get out of
there unnoticed, but he notices that Henderson is following him,
so he gives him directions to avoid him. However, at
the place he was sent to, the other agent who
had been sent by the Boss was already there, so

(11:53):
when Henderson tries to catch Charlie. The other agent tackles
him and they start to fight. Henderson has the other
agent pinned, so on the last attempt to break free,
he pulls out a gun he had on his foot
and manages to wound Henderson, but Henderson takes the weapon
from him and ends the agent's life. Charlie approaches Henderson
to help him, but the tenant insists that he leave,

(12:14):
so Charlie obeys, leaving Henderson wounded. At the CIA offices,
the boss summons More to ask him about Charlie, to
which he only replies that he's on vacation due to
his loss and leaves. Meanwhile, Calay, through the cameras, detects
that Charlie is wearing an earpiece that he apparently uses
to talk to someone, so they start investigating and find

(12:35):
in the system the conversations he had at the agency
with the tenant. That's how they discover the original tenant,
meaning the husband of the woman who helps Charlie, so
they get in contact with Istanbul, where Charlie and the
tenant are now while sleeping, The tenant approaches Charlie to
ask if they can sleep together because he wants to
feel someone by his side again. Hours later, the tenant

(12:57):
realizes that a group of police officers is after them,
so they quickly escape to a car. Then the chase
continues by car, but they are also followed by boats
that start shooting at them. In one of those moments,
a bullet seriously wounds the tenant, causing Charlie to take
control of the car. Once in a parking lot, we
realize that the tenant did not survive. Charlie takes the

(13:18):
tenant's cell phone and sees that some time ago she
sent him a message to arrange a meeting with the African,
so Charlie heads to Romania, where they had agreed to meet.
To distract the CIA, Charlie hacks the system and puts
his face on someone else in a very distant city.
At the meeting, the African notices that a phone is
ringing To continue with the deal, he tells Charlie he

(13:40):
wants the money, but Charlie replies that he won't give
it to him until he sees the product. So Charlie
tells him to check it, but when he opens the box,
an explosive is activated that detonates when it closes. After this,
Charlie remembers his wife again and wants to know Schiller's location.
The African doesn't know exactly where he is, only that
it's in Russian waters and that sometimes he makes deliveries

(14:03):
to a port in Russia. He tells Charlie to check
his phone so he'll believe him. Charlie takes it and
verifies that what he said is true, but at the
moment the African man asks him to save him, Charlie
does nothing and walks away, only to be frightened by
the massive explosion it cost. The c i A realizes
Charlie hacked them because they detect what he did.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
In Romania, leaving them with no clue of his whereabouts.
Already at the port, Charlie notices a van arrived with
two suit cases, so he begins to follow them. After
the suit cases are delivered, Charlie takes a picture of
the boat where they were dropped off. After that, he
goes into a restaurant, but as he comes out, he
runs into the secret agent from the beginning, the one

(14:44):
who had just arrived from a trip. Now calmer at
the table, he begins to say that he came to
save his life and that no one had sent him
since he saw him in Russia when he arrived and
followed him to help him get out alive and convince
him to leave this revenge behind. He tells him that
his wife would have preferred he stayed home, but seeing
that Charlie is reluctant to let this go, the agent

(15:06):
gives him his blessing and tells him to keep his
eyes wide open. That night, Charlie begins to investigate the
boat he photographed and discovers that the small boat belongs
to a larger ship where Shiller is possibly located. He
talks to one of the people who are carrying the
suit cases, but since he doesn't speak Spanish, he said
nothing to him. However, we see that he does alert

(15:27):
his companions. The next day, Charlie goes back to watch
the boat, but this time they were already waiting for
him and knock him out, taking him on to the ship.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
Once on the ship, they present him to Shiller with
the bomb he had placed on the ship. Shiller begins
to talk to him. Shiller can't believe he's there just
for revenge. He starts telling him if he remembers his wife,
who was quite brave, and that her death was something
necessary because the police had them surrounded. He tells him
that he's not so different from him, but unlike Shiller,

(15:55):
Charlie killed from afar because he knows he can't kill
face to face, and that doesn't mean he's weak, it
just means he's not a killer. At that moment, Shiller
gives Charlie a weapon, challenging him to kill him. Charlie
asks him to kneel, making him feel what his wife
felt before she was killed, but when he pulls the trigger,
he stops and reveals that he hacked the ship's navigation system,

(16:17):
redirecting it to Finish Waters, where Shiller can be arrested.
He asks for the watch that was taken from him
when he was captured, which is the only way to
control the ship after Shiller's thugs destroyed his phone, but
it's already too late. Shiller and his henchmen are arrested.
At the CIA, the Chief holds a meeting exposing the
covert missions More was doing in secret, and he and

(16:38):
Caleb are also arrested for carrying out illegal missions in Europe.
Here we are made to understand that the one who
gave the information to the Chief was Charlie and that
he will continue working at the CIA. At his wife's grave,
he replaces the flowers with new ones in a supermarket.
When Charlie gets into the car, Emerson also gets in.

(16:58):
He's just there to thank him and say how surprised
he was. After that, he leaves. We also see that
Charlie managed to repair the plane his wife had given him. Determined,
Charlie takes off on the flight. More videos created for
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