Written by: Michael Brandt, Derek Haas and Chris Morgan, based on a story by Brandt and Haas, which was in turn based on the comic book by Mark Millar and J.G. Jones
Directed by: Timur Bekmambetov
Starring: James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman, Terence Stamp, Thomas Kretschmann

My Advice: Matinee

What are you when you're less than nobody? Whatever that is, it's Wesley Gibson (McAvoy). He works a cubicle job, has a girlfriend who's being bent over by his best friend anytime Wesley's out of eyeshot, is constantly browbeaten by his supervisor, and has to take anti-anxiety medication because he's just a complete and utter waste of flesh. Then one day he gets contacted by a mysterious woman named Fox (Jolie) who tells him the truth: the father that he never knew? Was one of the greatest assassins of the modern age. And said father has been recently put down by a rogue assassin who now is trying to put Wesley down. And the balance of the world rests on Wesley's shoulders: learn how to kill or learn how to be dead. The latter is frighteningly simple. The former…not so much.

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