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Rating: 1/10 (22 October 2008)

Contains Spoilers: I really couldn't believe this film.
I don't mean I couldn't believe that a young guy could be plucked from his boring life and trained to be a super assassin.
I don't mean that I couldn't believe that by channelling adrenalin, he is able to alter his perception of time to dodge or catch bullets, is able to jump onto moving trains, and is even able to shoot around corners.
What I couldn't believe is that major film studios still insult their viewing audience with awful scripts such as this.
Despite all the slo-mo digital effects, this film had no characters you could empathise with, lousy dialogue, no humour and no sense of drama.
I don't understand why the studios would be prepared to pay many millions of dollars for top Hollywood stars and special effects when the script is so shoddy.
They are presumably quite happy that the film has made a lot of money, but it cost a lot and could have made even more if it was truly involving and entertaining.
Surely the cost of writing a decent script for this would have been negligible in comparison to the overall cost of this film.
Sam Raimi's Spider-man films show how you can portray "comic book" characters with plenty of action, but also sympathetic characters and humour, this surely greatly broadens the appeal of the films.
I bought the 3 Spider-Man films, I have all the Superman and Batman films etc, like this film, they all stretch credibility, but have the added advantage of good scripts and humour (well maybe not Superman IV).
There's no way I would buy this tripe on DVD, so they've lost out on an additional £15 from me.
Why did they base this on the comic book when it is such a departure from the storyline anyway, why did the publishers let them? The studio should revisit the accounts for this film in a year, and see how much net profit The Dark Knight and Iron Man have made with additional cinema tickets, DVD and Blu-Ray sales etc, and think strongly about sending the chimps with typewriters back to the zoo.