The Amateur (2025) review

Charlie Heller (Rami Malek), who works in decryption for the CIA, learns that his wife Sarah (Rachel Brosnahan) has been killed by terrorists while on a business trip in London so he demands that he receive training to become an assassin (by threatening to blackmail his superiors), receives a few pointers from Col. Henderson (Laurence Fishburne) at Camp Peary and then sneaks off to Europe to eliminate the perpetrators (he isn't handy with a gun but he is good at building explosives and working with computers).  This Jason Bourne meets Mr. Robot piece of routine "spy" fiction hinges on the "connection" between Charlie and Sarah for "emotional weight" except there are only a couple of clips of them together so that's negligible, and the rest of the plot is simply groan-inducing, as multiple "coincidences" are plopped in there to keep it moving ahead.  The cast is fine, but nothing exceptional: Fishburne adds some much needed gravitas, although Michael Stuhlbarg, as the "final bad guy," sounds a little like Robin Williams doing a German accent.  Also, is it just me or does Deputy Director Moore (Holt McCallany), a senior employee at the Agency, bear an uncanny resemblance to George Tenet?