A Wicked and Unique Insight into Full-Assassin Mode!

Rating: 9/10 (8 July 2019)

Man this movie rocks! I've seen this film so many times these past six or seven years, it never gets tiresome! I think I have seen it maybe twenty to thirty times by now, and I love it just as much as I did when I first saw it in 2012. Its visual effects are really good and they're not overdone. The acting is fantastic and I believe this is one of James McAvoy's best roles to date. He's very convincing in the film and portrays lead role of Wesley Gibson, a struggling, anxious office worker whose boss humiliates him big-time, as his co-worker and friend has sex with his girlfriend behind his back -- to which Wesley is aware of, yet shows no desire of stopping it or doing something about it. He just lets people walk all over him. That is, until, he meets "Fox" - played by the talented Angelina Jolie, and a team of assassins known as "The Fraternity." The Fraternity is lead by the wise, hypnotising Morgan Freeman, whose acting is also fantastic here, and in general. There are huge plot twists, and unbeknownst to Wesley, the true antagonist all along was Sloan (Morgan Freeman), as we find that the man who believe to be the villain and antagonist all along, "Cross" (who we believe has killed Wesley's father at the start of the movie) is actually Wesley's father, and all along he was trying to protect him. Their reason for training Wesley into becoming a masterful assassin and pitting him against Cross? He was the one person Cross would not kill. Superb cinematography and choreography, intelligent techniques (the bullet-bending technique is both shocking and absurd all the same, yet very unique and cool), solid performances, direction and a lot of profanity, violence/action, and sadness all throughout. There are heartfelt moments, mind-bending, jaw dropping action sequences, unpredictability and a lot of strong dialogue as well. Timur Bekmambetov outdid himself here as a director, I feel. It's a well-balanced yet prominently-dark action thriller with thrills, twists, chaos and madness to keep you at the edge of your seat wanting more. A sequel is in no way far-fetched and to this day I'd love to see one. 9/10