Like watching Brad Pitt play a video game he's really good at from his lounge

Rating: 6/10 (13 November 2013)

Visually there are some good scenes in this movie but the story is set up like video game levels and then most of those scenes play like a video game. The town escape, the W.H.O run, the airplane battle, Jerusalem. There are many elements to them that are cool but Pitt sails through them like he's already played the game before, no real engagement, he runs blankly from one vantage point to the next (via controller, left left, nudge pause), picking off targets (fire fire fire). He hardly breaks a sweat. The revelation points couldn't have been any more signposted if they'd circled them with highlighter pen for us. So really a video game with cheat sheet codes. Add to that the complete rewrite of the last 3rd of the story, it kind of leaves you wondering if the makers really had anything to say when they started the project.