Fast-paced flick with a few flaws and similarities.

Rating: 6/10 (28 July 2008)

What to say about this movie that hasn't been said? First off, it was pretty much just a rip on The Matrix, all with the physics-defying moves and the bullet curving and the slow motion, but I think that's the point of it. I mean, it continues the Matrix-style, but it never really fulfilled it. In the beginning, you see Wesley Gibson as a man, and the narrative was just like Edward Norton's Tyler Durden. A man who is stressed out in his daily life, and talks about the things that interest him (in this case, the keyboard). In the beginning, you see Wesley as a bullied person, by his over- weight boss who uses the stapler to make him more stressed, and also by his best friend who has sex with his girlfriend and calls him a "pussy".
Angelina Jolie's character comes in, saves him from Cross, who is supposedly the man who killed Wesley's father. She takes him into the Fraternity, where he is trained into an assassin. You see him get beaten up, get stabbed, and also get threatened. You find out that Wesley's stress level is just adrenaline, which helps him to become an assassin.
I found the "curving bullet" to be a cool idea, actually. When it was used in the ending, when Fox (Angelina Jolie) used it to make a round-house suicide, it was just corny. But the bullet colliding was good, too.
When you find out that Cross is Wesley's father, I was very disappointed. It was just another fail at an attempt to make a plot change, and make you go "Oh my God!". And how they explained how he was his father, and how he was trying to protect Wesley from going to the Fraternity was terrible. I mean, he was shooting him on the train, so how could that be "protecting" him?
There are some flaws, but I found this an alright movie. It isn't the best, and I don't think it's really worth seeing.