An unrealistic but entertaining cliché action movie

Rating: 5/10 (20 January 2011)

However most action movies are not so realistic, this movie which at the beginning sounded promising to me, progressed so unrealistically and predictably that in my opinion, can not be ranked as a good action movie.
Angelina Jolie as the chief character of the movie, plays the role of a dauntless invincible agent, who bears a grudge against soviet undercover spies who kill her husband and this ends to a heroic, audacious mission to eliminate all those spies individually and independently. The plot of raising spies and training them since their childhood to conduct missions on the territory of another country, sounded intriguing to me. But the way the rest of the movie progressed, was trite and disappointing.
In this movie, in many sequences, audience is considered too simple-minded and naive. Unbelievable loose security of white house which made it too easy too breach, killing all Russian highly trained spies, managing to escape from a highly secured building with dozens of agents inside, launching the nuclear warhead solely by the president and without presence of chief generals of United States, all sounded too simple, unreasonable and unreal. In addition, the selection of roles was weak in some cases especially about the president of the US who looked like everyone except a president! On the bright side, the movie is full of exciting and entertaining sequences and thrills the audience occasionally.
All in all it was not too much promising and I did not enjoyed watching this movie as much as I expected since it abound with unreasonable and unrealistic events.