Released in 2015, the film American Ultra is a genre-bending action-comedy that follows Mike Howell (Jesse Eisenberg), a small-town stoner who discovers he is actually a highly trained, lethal CIA sleeper agent.
This "stoner-hybrid" genre works because the film never treats Mike’s laziness as the punchline; rather, it treats his anxiety as a real disability that the CIA weaponized. The pot smoking isn't just a gag—it is his self-medication to keep the "programming" at bay. American Ultra