What did I just watch?? (minor spoilers)

Rating: 3/10 (12 July 2008)

There's a difference between an entertaining if mindless action movie, and just plain on-screen silliness. This movie is the latter. It started out promising enough; ordinary/boring guy in meaningless job gets a chance to change his life around (by becoming a world-class assassin, of course. Ah, the American Dream...), but from about the half-hour mark onward, the movie just descends into plain silliness. Yes, I understand they were trying to go for a Matrix-esquire feel, and these assassins have special abilities, but nonetheless it just felt silly to me, and not in an even remotely 'fun' way.
The movie lost ALL credibility for me when they introduced the Loom of Fate. Are you kidding me? Mistakes in the weaving tell you (in binary code! Haha!) who to kill?? I didn't think an individual movie could have a 'jump the shark' moment, but there it was...
This movie is a rental, at best. Don't waste your money going to the theater.