The amateur trailer: Rami Malek is seeking payback in this tech-enabled spy thriller.

The movie centers on Malek’s character, a CIA cryptographer who goes to extreme lengths to exact revenge after his wife is killed in a London terror assault.

Here is the trailer for Rami Malek’s espionage thriller, The Amateur. The film, which was directed by Jame Hawes, centers on Malek’s character, a CIA cryptographer whose wife is murdered in a London terror assault. Determined to exact retribution, he demands “mission-specific training” from his agency, transforming from a dweeby tech guy to a cunning field agent to hunt down his wife’s killers.

Key characters include Laurence Fishburne, Holt McCallany, Jon Bernthal, and Rachel Brosnahan. In The Amateur, Fishburne, who was Neo’s trainer in the Matrix series, has put raw-boned Malek through his paces.