All style, no substance

Rating: 1/10 (2 September 2008)

What a load of hogwash! It's as if The Matrix got mixed with Looney Toons and the whole concoction was directed by someone trying to imitate John Woo while high on crystal meth.
Its about an organization of assassins who can do almost anything, but yet they require a "nobody" who works as an office drone. Their big "reveal reason" for wanting him to join doesn't even make that much sense, cos they're supposed to be "SO" well trained in the first place. Plus they can manage to do the most impossible stunts in the world as if they all had formal training at Cirque Du Soleil and can kill any target at anytime but yet they're so dumb they cant think for themselves. Cos they all seem to get taken by surprise for the final "twist".
2 awesome action set-pieces (One involving a car and a bus, and the other involving a train falling of a suspension bridge over a canyon) managed to save me from gouging out my eyes. And my disappointment in Morgan Freeman is growing, as he was one of my fave actors, but seems to be doing anything for money these days. (Edison, The Contract, Wanted. WTF?!?) And as for Angelina, looking nothing like her former voluptuous self, and seeming kinda sickly is distractingly nauseating. James McAvoy does a half-way decent job for the first 30 minutes, until he turns into the spawn of Neo (from previously -mentioned Matrix) It's made oodles of cash at the box office though, so of course the sequel is a lock. Pity.