Not What I... 'Wanted'!

Rating: 2/10 (22 December 2008)

Okay, firstly, what in the name of all that is holy, is Hollywood legend Morgan Freeman doing in such an awful movie, maybe he has outstanding debts to the IRS that he desperately needed cash and was willing to star in anything! He would have walked away with more dignity starring in an amatuerly made bad porn movie! And for Angelina Jolie, well, lets face it, she wouldn't be famous if it wasn't for her legendary Hollywood star father, Jon Voight, who I'm sure wouldn't think twice about starring in this tripe! Secondly, the movie itself. Storyline...ridiculous and full of clichés, hardly any thought put into it what-so-ever. If you want to watch cool movies about assassins, watch Hit-man (5/10), The Killers (John Woo), Collateral (Cruise), Desperado (Banderos), Leon (Luc Bisson). Don't limit yourself to second rate movies like this, they're are a waste of time.
Thirdly, all this 'bullet time' cinematography has been done before. Notably The Matrix, (which by the way this movie rips off to the max) I mean çurving bullets around corners!' Come on! And even when this movie tries to be clever, i.e. the scene with the 'keyboard' well excuse me for noticing that there is only one letter 'U' on any make of keyboard.
I sincerely hope this is not the best there will be in Hollywood action movies. However, at the same time it excites me slightly because as an aspiring scriptwriter I'm sure to make some bucks if this is my competition.
But even I know that in Hollywood, it is sadly sometimes a case of not 'what you know' But 'Who'that matters, and that is my only conclusion as to how this movie was made.
Andrew