The film's great fun. These people, 'the fraternity', interpret a code hidden in a loom that gives them names of targets. They kill the targets. Only one of them has turned rogue, so the son of one of the fraternity is trained up and sent off to the Czech Republic to kill him. They can kill people because they... well it's not explained very well but it has something to do with a high heart rate and a lot of adrenalin, plus they can bend bullets. Angelina Jolie goes along for the ride, gets her arse out in one scene and kisses him in another - that's all she's good for here but definitely check out her performance in Eastwood's upcoming The Changeling. The voice-over is at times all-too-familiar, ripping off Fight Club with it's monotone sense of misanthropy but despite reservations i loved the film. Any film that shows a bullet exploding out of a guy's head in slow motion is good in my book. Assassins by their vocation are cool; here they're almost as cool as Jean Reno.
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