Sadly, I think i've seen these before.

Rating: 2/10 (9 July 2008)

I think this is one of those films that we've all seen in many other films. As anyone has most likely read it contains elements of many popular movies like The Matrix, Fight Club, V For Vendetta and in my opinion fails at bringing those together.
I'm sure that upon the reading of the script it seemed that it would be a great film with some action, some personal growth of the protagonist and one great dilemma to overcome. But in reality the growth was too sudden, with no real reward and no reason to do so.
I think that in most cases a film can be summed up in the first ten minutes that it will be worth sitting through and quite soon in the film I had very little reason to believe in the character Wesley Gibson. James McAvoy just didn't seem to fit into the character at all. His office working life, cheating girlfriend and panic attacks just weren't there for me and if we're supposed to 'believe' in our character to the end and don't. The film has failed.
The biggest shock to me was Morgan Freeman. Here is an actor that has the wise grandfather approach that we all look up to for a solid and consistent character performance. And he does away with that near the end when we hear him say "F*%K". To me this is a sign that the film has done nothing but pull your head out of your huge bag of popcorn wondering if the film is over. But it wasn't.
Instead it ends with the shameful surprise ending of the falling of the fourth wall and ask you why you wasted your time with this movie.