This movie is so ridiculously bad that it is almost entertaining

Rating: 2/10 (18 April 2012)

This review contains spoilers but I 'll try to limit them as best as I can.
I hear, this movie is based on a cartoon. For the cartoon's sake I hope the movie took liberties story wise, because the story of this movie is awful. No, actually awful is an understatement but you get the idea.
The movie is about an ordinary guy who gets unexpectedly invited to join a cult of assassins which has apparently existed for several thousand years.
The special secret power of those assassins is that they can fire bullets from a gun like a curve ball or like a top spin shot in tennis, which in essence lets them shoot around corners.
But it gets worse.
In the course of the movie we learn about the beginnings of this cult of assassins. The founders of the group were just ordinary people. They had discovered that a certain device in their daily work (they were not assassins yet) did not work as well as they hoped. There were anomalies which they decided had to be coded messages. And sure enough, they "cracked" the code and what that device was feeding them were names.
Maybe we can be inclined to follow that plot development... but how can we explain that the conclusion these people drew from receiving "names" was that they had to kill them? Why not send them flowers or invite them to lunch? Apparently, these assassins believe that if the person on their list does not get killed far greater evil will come into this world. How can they possibly come to that conclusion? The people they kill are perfectly innocent by the time they die. The killers assume however, that something the victim would have done in the future would have caused harm.
Why do the assassins claim to know this? Have they tried all the other options as well (flowers, lunch)?
The movie does not explain this but what makes it worse: the young recruit does not ask. He just joins and quickly gets to the point where he kills without question.
The movie has some plot twists, none of which are surprising and ends in a showdown which is easily the most ridiculous scene of the movie.
It is for that reason that I would advise you to sit through this movie just for laughs... that is, if you can stomach the utter stupidity of the story.