wayyyy over the top

Rating: 4/10 (8 July 2008)

I didn't expect to see realistic action scenes going into this movie, but when I actually did see it...whoa! Yes, all the incredible stunts and assassinations they perform in this movie are extremely entertaining, but the accompanying storyline was very sub-par in my opinion. Getting assassination orders from "the loom of fate?" That's just silly. Not to mention exploding rats, c'mon. What were the writers on when they put this into the story? The point in the movie that really pushed it into the 'bad movie' category for me was the scene where the train cars were falling off the bridge. I know this is a movie that defies the laws of physics, but how anyone escaped with their lives after that scene baffles me. Fox's final set of executions was just icing on the terrible movie cake. If it weren't for the incredible action sequences and screenplay, I would actually be mad that I paid to see this movie.