Comic book approach to a 1000-year-old fraternity of assassins.

Rating: Null/10 (3 January 2009)

This movie starts off a bit strangely and, if we had known upfront that it was based on a graphic novel it would have made sense sooner. The main theme is a fraternity of assassins so there is quite a bit of graphic killing, but it is done in a comic book style and I believe most viewers will accept it as such.
James McAvoy is Wesley Gibson in a boring office cubicle job and with an extra large woman for a supervisor. He is about to go crazy there when one day at the supermarket he gets caught up in an assassination attempt. In the process he meets Angelina Jolie as Fox, they escape in a wild car-chase scene, and she tells him that he is destined to follow his father into the 1000-year-old fraternity of assassins.
The targets of the assassinations are obtained in a very unique way, woven into fabric in a binary code. Morgan Freeman is Sloan, who operates the weaving mill, and who shows Wesley how things work.
In addition to Fox, there are character names like Cross, Gunsmith, The Repairman, Mr. X, The Exterminator, and The Butcher.
The plot is fairly convoluted, but suffice to say that certain characters have superhuman powers, like the ability to slow down time so they can, for example, dodge bullets, or shoot such that their bullet smashes against a bullet headed for them. At times the photography reminds one of the "Matrix." This isn't really my type of movie, but I was fairly entertained.