Too far over the top

Rating: 5/10 (21 July 2008)

A guy near the bottom of the well of his life is offered a new life. A life totally different from the one he is living now: the life of an assassin.
When I saw the trailers for this film I was thinking it was going to be a brainless action film with lots of collateral damage, a flimsy story and some nice looking scenery, but overall a good sense of amusement. When the film started that thought was proved rather quickly. I had been wrong in one point though: the amusement factor. That last one was quickly broken when scene after scene went over the top and a lot of scenes did that so far that every sense of reality (and with that tension) was broken.
To me it felt like the film tried for too much at once and eventually toppled itself over while it could have been a lot better. I didn't feel entirely cheated out of my entrance money but I did feel a little sting that usually indicates that.
5 out of 10 bullets fired at a moving target