Customer Reviews
Bad, cliched, Dreadful... - By: godzilla78, 01 Dec 2008 
I thought the dark knight returns was the worst film i'd seen all year.....until i watched this! Bad, bad acting (or what is supposed to be acting)and the big book of cliches is used at every opportunity. James Mcavoy starts the ball rolling with his pathetic, wet character & silly american accent but he's not half as bad as Jolie & Freeman. Angelina pouts quite a lot & strikes a variety of poses from a kay's catalogue whilst shooting the bad guys. Morgan Freeman wears his smart suits & speaks with authority but he just sleepwalks through the film. Addin the utterly daft plot, dialogue written by a 10 year old & you get a poor hollywood film which has no plus points what so ever. Avoid.
Modern action classic - By: D. S. Bartlett, 30 Nov 2008 
Having recently endured a 24 hour flight to New Zealand,i had some relative solace from the passengerin front lying on my lap. I watched this film a total of 4 times on that flight,and can honestly say it didn't get boring,once. For sure,it has plot holes that a family of elephants could comfortably live in,and it's "unrealsitic",but then what film is "realistic"? Every single one features something called acting. The film itself is gloriously entertaining,with the finest use of slow motion i've seenin a long time.The car stunts particularly stickin my mind.For every action film cliche it steals,it comes up with plenty of new ideas,and the story is well paced,never bogging down with slushy sentamentalism or overcooked dialogue. In short,this is the perfect film to disconnect your brain,sit back & let it mesmerize you. If you enjoyed Fight Club & The Matrix,this kind of sits between the two of them.Bending bullets... ( :
Loads of special effects but no characters and no plot - By: S. Radford, 26 Nov 2008 If you like special effects & loads of mindless (and dramatically pointless) violence, with no context or any attempt to create a moral justification (or even an amoral explanation) for the actions of the chacters, then you might just enjoy this film.
The plot is apparently based on a super-villain comic book (or "graphic novel" as prefer to call it) & the film is equally flat & two-diemensional. It is neither intelligent or exciting & the special effects simply become a monotonous background to a plotline which is so ludicrous (and frankly unpleasant) that after the first half-hour you stop caring about it. The characters are mostly mere cyphers, or else quite loathsome, but as none of them is explained or built-onin any way there is no reason to care when they meet their various grisly ends.
If you enjoy an intelligent & well-scripted plot, with characters that are either believable (if fantastical), or sympathetic, or just interestingin some way, then don't bother to watch this film.
The people who might enjoy this film, or empathise with any of the characters, are those with a short attention-span who think that celebrity & fame are things of valuein themselves. The message of the film, if it has one (and the very last scene seems to indicate that the makers think it does), seems to be that a boring, unimaginitive tosser with a dead-end job who nobody has ever heard of, can achieve success, excitement, notoriety & self-fulfilment by killing people.
Even the main actors, top names though they are, seem to have been bored rigid by this film. Morgan Freeman plays the same character he always plays (he is perhaps the most sympathetic character as he is the only one who commits murder for an understandable purpose - personal gain) while Terence Stamp seems to be asleep during his (brief) scenes. The real disappointment however, is Angelina Jolie, who looks just awful - a haggard, botox-overdosing & unattractive actor playing an equally unattractive character (maybe her grim physical appearance is deliberate & meant to contribute to the film's ambience ..... but I doubt it).
If you really want to see this film then watch it on tellyin a year or two, or sooner if you pay for Sky-Movies (more fool you...) but don't waste your hard-earned wages on buying the DVD. You would be better off taking your girlfriend/boyfriend/spouse to the pub instead & spending time with real people rather than badly-drawn comic-book characters.
Ratsaction movie - By: Empe, 24 Nov 2008 
Strange film. An action movie with a confused plot, very good action scenes (with brilliant special effects) a good cast (but McAvoy is not the best for the role) & a "good" cerebral ending (with the "disgusting" & hyperbolic "bombrats" scenes). But mixin a confused matter themes like friendship, loyalty, honor, paternal love, & so on.
Perhaps is a movie too complex for the "simple" minds & too "simplex" for the complex minds.
One of the worst films I've ever seen - By: Gem G, 24 Nov 2008 Do not part with money for this film, it is absolutely terrible! I'm only giving it a 1 star as 0 stars is not available.
I honestly cannot think of any redeeming features or parts to this film, also if you own pet rats I don't think you would appreciate the promotion of total cruelty to animals or the total glorification of violence.
Awful awful film.
