Another Summer Action Film

Rating: 5/10 (3 July 2008)

The writer of Kingsmen is involved in this but this one is over the top on CGI effects and the plot is nowhere near the quality of the Kingsmen series. I can't believe it deserves a sequel, b ut there are plans announced. Maybe the next one will be better?
Morgan Freeman is not usually associated with action movies but fits into this one. His latest stint in the much better The Dark Knight proves this film is not as strong. The Dark Knight proves that while the action in this is good, it walks while the Dark Knight sprints to the finish line.
The plot- spoiler- is about a Guardian group which has operating for 1000 years assassinating people according to orders from a mysterious source higher up. This is enough to hold together the excitement. This film has lots of action scenes.
Wesley is enlisted into the group early in the movie after having been told his father has been killed. It breaks him out of a dull humdrum office account manager job & into the exciting world of being beaten up & killing people.
He dumps his younger chick girlfriend for older tattooed woman Angela Jolie but that's OK as the young one doesn't really seem interested in him but is plenty interested in his friends.
Overall the action in this is top notch though you wonder with the car crash sequences how much the gasoline would cost to do them now as i imagine gas was cheaper when this was filmed. The cast is OK but there have now been too many summer action films the last few years. There is a major plot twist for Wesley late in the film, but I will leave that to you viewers to find out what that is. One good thing is the plot makes sense even though some of the circumstances are a stretch that sometimes seems a go a little too far.
This film is OK, a good flick for drive-in theaters which would fight to see which has more action- the movies or the back seats? There are a few major mature language bursts but not that many. There are a few stimulating simulated sex scenes involving the younger chick & Wesleys best friend, but they are so brief that is nothing major.