Existential Angst and Gun Porn

Rating: 1/10 (23 October 2008)

Wesley Gibson lives a boring, pointless life, until one day he meets Fox (angelina Jolie), who tells the nerdy geek, that he has magical powers like Neo (who actually is cooler) and there's this secret organization of superpowered assassins who..... Oh GOD! I can't go on. If there ever was a movie that asks you to "turn off your brain", then this is it.
Bending bullets? Slow motion mayhem? Pornographic shots of cars and bullets flying? Angelina Jolie moaning on top of a high speeding car and shooting guns? Hang on! This is an xbox game! Not a movie. How else could you explain how Jolie looks like a crack whore? She is a cgi double (they did it before but with better results). Morgan Freeman is the mentor figure (good that he gets to play such a different character after the Dork Knight), that gives the nerdy geek his missions. i.e. "Go kill a person in a visually stimulating way." Yup a video game.
We live pointless lives but luckily there's xbox. I hate my job but once I get home my real life starts. With hot babes, fast cars and guns. Killing is cool and violence is sexy. "Wohooo!" , Gibson yells after killing a person. Celebrating some poor chumps death. But it's OK because it's all make believe. It's just computer graphics. At least in a video game you get to participate in the killing. At least you get to do something. Here you have to watch as the nerdy dweeb kills "bad" people.It's boring. It's inhuman.
Remember the time when action heroes resembled human beings? Had human emotions? Aliens? the first Rambo? Terminator?
Every human emotion is alien to this director. Everything is pornographic and slick. What's next? Superheroes having intercourse while killing a terrorist? Of course they can't actually show people having sex on the screen but killing is OK for some reason. As long as it looks cool, of course. I mean heaven forbid if we actually saw what violence really does to people.
This is arguably the worst movie of 2008.