Stupid

Rating: 2/10 (28 December 2010)

Some have ventured a feeble defense of this tripe on the "action movies aren't supposed to be realistic" line. Well, true. But they're not supposed to be preposterous either, and utterly abandon the rules of physics and biology. I might buy a man in the role, if he was young, had a special forces background and was clearly in shape and had a fierce combat mindset. Yes, it would still be absurd but it would at least be within spitting distance of the possible, and protected by genre tradition. This movie turns on an extremely thin (and thin-boned, even spidery framed) woman of about 110 pounds outfighting highly trained, armed and armored professional operatives, sometimes three and four at a time, TIME AND TIME AGAIN. Did I also tell you that to preserve her presence on the good side of the spectrum, she can ONLY KNOCK THEM OUT. Oh, and she can jump off a moving subway without SHATTERING HER SPINE OR SMUDGING HER MAKE-UP. Best gimmick: to disguise herself she DIES HER HAIR BLACK. She's still one of the most beautiful women in the world, but no one notices her, despite A NATIONAL MANHUNT, because she's now got black hair. Oh, and when she's cornered she (SPOILER) BUILDS AN INSTANT BAZOOKA out of common cleaning supplies in 8 seconds. The plot is snippets from superior works--The Manchurian Candidate, The Day Before Midnight, The Bourne Trilogy, Dr. Strangelove, among others--haphazardly arranged, not even consistent by its own interior (if crazed) logic. Just pointless. They should have used that bazooka on the script