killing is OK?

Rating: 6/10 (25 July 2008)

After Mama Mia seeing Wanted was a sort of antidote. From over the top confectionery frolics to some thriller that was trying for a new twist. A sort of X-Men with smaller mutations appeared: bullets that curve, bullets hit one another, heart rates at 400 per minute in order to achieve this effect. First their was the cod- history lesson about assassins who for a thousand years have executed people to some rather dodgy moral code. The film opens with a spectacular shootout. Cut to about (James McAvoy), an office worker whose life is falling apart under a tyrannical boss and feeling sorry for himself. His life is turned around when Angelina Jolie invites him to join the assassins and reveals his special powers example 400 heart beat etc. Jolie having made the big time has finally returned to acting like big star and is the best thing on th film. Despite having not much to do. A big chase sequence follows with some amazing train special effects, except that's what we expect from films these days. Much of this is script-by-numbers but there are a couple of nice twists which make this worth seeing. There is the whole thing about the weavers and the code for the killing but I couldn't see all the cross-stitching that they could see in order to kill people.