Rouge Assassin

I've now been to War! Or rather, Rogue Assassin as it is known over here. Jet Li, Jason Stratham, it was bound to be good! (And by "good" I mean mindless enough to be entertaining as long as you didn't have to think.)

By and large, it was a success. At the end I was going "nice, I like it!", and there was tons of action to wade through the boring talkie bits for, so that was nice.

However, the director needs a lot more experience yet. Looking at his record, Philip G. Atwell has mainly worked on rapper videos, and it shows. Lots of fast choppy cuts in the action scenes to make sure the audience doesn't know who's where and what's going on, a hallmark to be sure. And I don't know if it was his fault (certainly he should have picked up on it), or the writers', but 20 minutes into the movie, we don't need a flashback scene to the first 10 minutes. We know, we were there, and we are not! that! stupid!

Anyway, enjoyable enough if you can stand the too-quick pace of some scenes. Not exactly "must see" but not "avoid!".

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