Pure Fantasy

Rating: 5/10 (3 June 2006)

I hope that people do not ascribe any accuracy to the screenplay. It is ridiculous to think that a group of assassins gather at the last moment before commencing operations and get to know one another. Furthermore, the lead was completely untrained which is probably the case since they missed many opportunities to kill their prey quickly & cleanly. The foul-up in retaining the services of a bomb maker who only knew how to dismantle bombs hardly rings true, even for the CIA!
Kushner & Spielberg bend over backwards to provide ideological balance to the warring sides. It is obvious that the true nature of professional assassins do not make for good movie material...apparently there is a need for heavy emotional conflict in order to tamper down the exactitude and clarity of purpose that is actually the makeup of the professional "agency" hit-man.
A good shoot'em up...a Western set in fashionable European locales.