Hard to swallow taking the loom targets on faith alone

Rating: 6/10 (23 March 2014)

A thousand years ago, a clan of weavers became assassins for good calling themselves the Fraternity. Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) is a loser office drone. Then Fox (Angelina Jolie) saves him from an assassin. She tells him that he comes from a long line of assassins and somebody is trying to kill him.
As much as Wesley finds the world so annoying that he needed to be medicated, that's how I felt about the visual style at first. Director Timur Bekmambetov does a too good of a job portraying Wesley's anxiety. The action is uniquely ADD. It's fun until it's not. McAvoy is playing the runt of the litter. He's a great actor, but his character complains too much. Jolie is the cool killer, and Morgan Freeman is the wise sen-sai. As for the loom idea, it's a tough pill to swallow. At least Dexter investigates his targets before killing them.