Heartless

Rating: 7/10 (28 December 2014)

Depending on your point of view this is a fast moving spy yarn or risible and preposterous drivel. Either way to me it's brutal and pointless and not something I'm ever likely to let darken my eyeballs again.
Just when you thought they'd both run out of USD it's Russia vs America again folks, this time a complicated plot with (plenty of) planted sleepers within the very halls and vaults of Yankee power. Is there really room for all of them and the many other sleepers there from the other religion too? It mainly involves the apparent mission of an indestructible Russian/American triple agent played by Angelina Jolie up against double and triple agents galore all out to, well, destroy the world. On the way many people are ruthlessly kicked to bits, butchered, or both; endlessly running down corridors toting guns has been used many times before to much better effect. On the other hand it's a film that can leave you thinking about it long after it's done and I admit I also stayed interested in hopefully finding out who's zoomin' who: the answers returned the producers and me. But the sheer panache of the nonsense held my attention to the very end, when I got a final unwelcome surprise twist - a sequel was/is planned! Go get 'em girl - without me watching.