Children of the corn

Rating: 1/10 (21 February 2011)

Big Agriculture hires an assassin to kill a scientist who wants to give everybody food for free forever so that hunger will become obsolete. The scientist is humbly called a progressive. He brings progress in this world and science is an unmitigated good...
There is an Arab sheik who pays disinterestedly for this discovery, risking his life left and right for years on end, for the sake of mankind. He is also somewhat handsome.
Then our assassin becomes so saintly that he persuades a defenseless girl in a bad situation to risk her life for his sake for the better part of 90 minutes. She even kills for him, whereas he keeps his hands rather clean...
The location, Berlin, is striking, but not beautiful, because we do not see nearly enough of it...
Whoever thinks this is a likely story deserves to watch it.