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Rating: 7/10 (26 June 2008)

This film, if taken on its own, isn't all that bad. If you are looking for realistic actions and plausible situations, please do your homework.
I am not sure if this is a comic adaptation, but it sure looks like one. In fact in many of the scenes, it reminds me a lot of Matrix and Sin City.
The movie basically keeps a good pace with plenty of action sequences between short conversations. Now this is where I love the movie. The dialogues are short, concise and sweet. the only thing I didn't like, the main character being such a useless punk at the beginning. However his transformation into a top-level killer seems rather rushed, sudden to say the least.
The twist in the story was expected from the very moment he was made to believe he is the heir to a "great" legacy. There I smelled the rat and thought it would be far too simple, too straight forward, a movie to be made today.
Angelina Jolie is beautiful, however, I had expected more out of her than the role she played in this action movie. BTW, she is showing some aging since her last movie.
Overall, the big names are wasted here. This movie could have been made with less budget on the names and more on the story.