Comparison between one-sheets for Anton Corbijn‘s The American and Alan Pakula‘s The Parallax View unapologetically stolen from Ryan Adamsposting earlier today on Awards Daily. HE reader C.C. Baxter has suggested another inspiration — the poster for Steven Soderbergh‘s Traffic.

The trailer below surfaced about six weeks ago. Clooney’s assassin character is clearly anxious, bothered — his face shows a lot of anxiety in more than few scenes. Here’s an apparently new trailer that includes dialogue between Clooney’s character and a priest about morality, “good cause” and God’s approval or lack of.