Unmitigated garbage

Rating: 1/10 (1 July 2009)

This film stank from the first to the last minute. Where to start: The bad language was totally unnecessary. It's not swearing per se that's the problem, that has it's place when used well as do any other words, it's that this just isn't necessary and it spoils the dialogue when used so liberally and by everyone all the time. My wife described it (before she gave up on it and went to bed) as "Jason Statham does the Matrix" which I think sums it up nicely.
Sure the action was interesting, but so totally unbelievable in every way that it just looked silly. Even allowing for the fact that it was a comic book script, it was so OTT in this respect that I found it impossible to lose myself in it the way I can in films like "V for Vendetta" or "Watchmen" The total disregard for human life is often an issue in these sort of films although it can often be excused given the context of the film, but here the gratuitous scene where the fraternity take out a train full of passengers presumably sending everyone (except our "heroes" of course) plunging to a horrible death is deeply, deeply flawed filmaking.
Lastly, just how much do you want to flag up an ending? In fact the many twists and turns were so obvious so far in advance that only the laziest of viewers would fail to see them coming a mile off. Lazy and flawed filmaking again.
Had I paid for this, I'd have demanded a refund. One of the worst big budget movies I've ever seen. Hated it and deeply disappointed in Morgam Freeman particularly.