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Created Jul 25, 2008 05:13PM PST • Edited Jul 25, 2008 05:13PM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Good 3.0

   A good action movie, but disappointing in many ways. While the story is no more unbelievable than most other superhero/impossibly-awesome-abilities movies, this one lacked … something. I’m not even sure why, but I left feeling like I hadn’t really seen a movie, but just a bunch of action sequences barely held together by a flimsy story. And could the ending be any more cliche or cop-out-ish?

4. Acting

   Very Good 3.5

   The main male character does quite well with the role he’s given, and quite convincingly carries out his transformation from bored-with-life-9-to-5er into badass assassin. This is the first movie where I’ve really found Jolie to be the sex-symbol everyone’s been saying she is; however, I thought she was much more action-y and badass in “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.” Freeman is so cliche in this movie that it almost makes me sick … can he PLEASE be given a role soon that casts him as something other than the mastermind or behind-the-scenes controller … PLEASE.

5. Male Stars Very Good 3.5

6. Female Stars Very Good 3.5

7. Female Costars Very Good 3.5

8. Male Costars Very Good 3.5

10. Film

    Very Good 3.5

11. Direction Great 4.0

12. Play Great 4.0

    Interesting conversation.

13. Music Great 4.0

14. Visuals Very Good 3.5

    The train scene, for example, looks extremely fake throughout most of it. Some other scenes throughout the movie look like they are early experiements in CGI and green-screen, rather than productions right in the heart of the CGI generation. However, there are many scenes with cool effects and visuals, just wish there had been smoother transitions between real-film and CGI moments.

15. Content

16. Edge

    Sordid 3.3

17. Sex Titillating 2.1

    Ever seen Jolie’s ass? You will in this movie!

18. Violence Savage 4.0

    Pretty intense … wasn’t expecting it to be so graphic but that expectation didn’t last long.

19. Rudeness Nasty 3.8

    Lots of swearing.

21. Reality

    Supernatural 4.0

    A movie about a natural-born assassin who can bend bullets’ trajectories, and a loom that fortells the future? Pretty damn supernatural.

22. Circumstantial Supernatural 3.1

23. Biological Supernatural 4.0

24. Physical Fantasy 5.0