Okay action film

Rating: 6/10 (3 April 2011)

When I sat down to watch this I wasn't expecting anything great; I was hoping for plenty of action and tension though. On the first count I wasn't too disappointed as there was plenty of action although most of it was highly stylised and full of CGI, unfortunately it wasn't all that tense though as I didn't find myself caring about the characters. James McAvoy plays Wesley an accountant who is put upon both at work and at home until on day he is told that his father who he never knew was in fact part of a group of elite assassins. Unfortunately he learns that a rogue member of the group who is picking them off one by one killed his father. He is then recruiting into this 'Fraternity of Assassins' and is trained until he is ready to kill the man who killed his father although nothing is quite what it seems.
James McAvoy was good enough as Wesley although he was more convincing as the pathetic accountant than he was as an assassin; Angelina Jolie was okay as Fox, the person who first introduced Wesley to the assassins and trained him and Morgan Freeman was as good as one would expect him to me as the group's leader. The training scenes seemed to drag on a bit longer than was necessary and once he was told he could go after his father's killer he got to him rather quickly. There was a twist at the end that wasn't entirely a surprise although it was well handled. Overall this is okay if you want some mindless action but it certainly isn't anything more than okay.