Major spoilers below!
Folks. Do not be misled by this movie's marketing. Do not be misled by the trailer or advertisements. They would have you believe this movie is about a secret assassin organization that goes after a new recruit. This has nothing to do with that! Do you know what this movie does have to do with?? Curving bullets!!! Yes, this movie should officially be called The Curvey Bullet Movie. Because 3/4 of the film is taken up either teaching someone to curve a bullet, actually curving a bullet, remembering what it was like to curve a bullet, flashbacks of curving bullets. They didn't name the organization of the assassins. But I wouldn't be surprised if it was called The Curving Bullets.
Okay okay. There are other things that happened in this movie. You wanna know one of them? Okay, I'll tell you. One of the sequences involved sending 1000 rats, each strapped with its own watch and bomb, into the bad guy's lair. Not only that, but this was a very important moment in the movie. It was the ending. This was the hero's genius idea for taking out his enemies. I'm not kidding you.
Sigh... I was looking forward to this movie more than any other movie this summer. Although this director is a little eccentric, I enjoy his inventiveness. I like how he does things you've never seen before onscreen. But when those things involve a to-be-assassinated big shot in a limo watching as our hero helplessly lodges bullets in his bullet proof glass (and doesn't seem to care that someone's trying to assassinate him. In fact, he goes on with his daily life) and our hero then coordinates a stunt in which he has his co-assassinator, Angelina Jolie, speeds past him in a corvette, spins around, races at him, slams on the breaks as to send the weight of the car forward and create a make-shift ramp that allows our hero to then jump his car, spin around 180 style over the limo so that he can now shoot out his window down into the big shot's limo open moon roof... I mean come on. You can do that stuff in Charlie's Angels 3. And I'm not going to argue that it didn't look cool. But the movie was trying to say something. It was posing as a film we should be taking seriously. That's okay though. Just curve another bullet!
This director is very talented but he simply doesn't seem to understand tone. Or at least tone in America. Maybe in Russia this kind of tone is perfect.
Having said all that, I was entertained in a reserved way. Because you're dealing with this visually gifted director, you never knew what was going to come next. The train sequence was pretty cool. I just have no idea how we got there. One second we're in Chicago. The next we're on a train in Russia! I guess bullets weren't the only curves he was throwing at us! Morgan Freeman's voice: "I want you to curve the storyline."
Folks. Do not be misled by this movie's marketing. Do not be misled by the trailer or advertisements. They would have you believe this movie is about a secret assassin organization that goes after a new recruit. This has nothing to do with that! Do you know what this movie does have to do with?? Curving bullets!!! Yes, this movie should officially be called The Curvey Bullet Movie. Because 3/4 of the film is taken up either teaching someone to curve a bullet, actually curving a bullet, remembering what it was like to curve a bullet, flashbacks of curving bullets. They didn't name the organization of the assassins. But I wouldn't be surprised if it was called The Curving Bullets.
Okay okay. There are other things that happened in this movie. You wanna know one of them? Okay, I'll tell you. One of the sequences involved sending 1000 rats, each strapped with its own watch and bomb, into the bad guy's lair. Not only that, but this was a very important moment in the movie. It was the ending. This was the hero's genius idea for taking out his enemies. I'm not kidding you.
Sigh... I was looking forward to this movie more than any other movie this summer. Although this director is a little eccentric, I enjoy his inventiveness. I like how he does things you've never seen before onscreen. But when those things involve a to-be-assassinated big shot in a limo watching as our hero helplessly lodges bullets in his bullet proof glass (and doesn't seem to care that someone's trying to assassinate him. In fact, he goes on with his daily life) and our hero then coordinates a stunt in which he has his co-assassinator, Angelina Jolie, speeds past him in a corvette, spins around, races at him, slams on the breaks as to send the weight of the car forward and create a make-shift ramp that allows our hero to then jump his car, spin around 180 style over the limo so that he can now shoot out his window down into the big shot's limo open moon roof... I mean come on. You can do that stuff in Charlie's Angels 3. And I'm not going to argue that it didn't look cool. But the movie was trying to say something. It was posing as a film we should be taking seriously. That's okay though. Just curve another bullet!
This director is very talented but he simply doesn't seem to understand tone. Or at least tone in America. Maybe in Russia this kind of tone is perfect.
Having said all that, I was entertained in a reserved way. Because you're dealing with this visually gifted director, you never knew what was going to come next. The train sequence was pretty cool. I just have no idea how we got there. One second we're in Chicago. The next we're on a train in Russia! I guess bullets weren't the only curves he was throwing at us! Morgan Freeman's voice: "I want you to curve the storyline."
