What's Action without a good story?

Rating: 4/10 (12 August 2008)

The movie starts very promising, kind of reminding me of Fight Club. When a man does a jump of about 40 meters between two large buildings, after breaking through glass head-first without a scratch some minutes later, you start wondering if this might be a Matrix sequel. Cool so far. But as the story unfolds, you recognize that it has a lot of holes in it. Everything concerning the story is shallow and very on the surface. The main characters remain completely undeveloped. Freeman and Jolie might have done well if the lousy script would have allowed them to...OK, let the members of the Assassin fraternity have better reactions and visual capabilities than other people, but they are humans after all, aren't they? Making them defy the laws of nature (gravity, shooting in angles etc.) makes them superhuman and this fills the movie with incredible computer aided stunt scenes, which I personally found actually boring during the movie, because it's all too perfect and clean. This could be a fine movie, if it would tell a story, and not be all about the action. That's what made Matrix great, it has the Action AND the storyline...