Fresh off the blockbuster success of sprawling horror-fantasy epics NIGHT WATCH (2004) and DAY WATCH (2006), Kazakh-Russian director Timur Bekmambatov tackled Hollywood on its own ground with this comic book-based shoot 'em up. The result is slick, stylish and super-violent, but also oddly dull.
If ever a pathetic cubicle slave needed Fight Club, it's Chicago accountant Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy), whose life is an unrelenting hell of underpaid boredom and emotional abuse. His boss is a fat, spiteful bitch, his girl friend is a cheating bitch and his best friend is the low-down creep sleeping with the cheating bitch -- even Wesley's ATM has him pegged as a...
Released:
2008
Rated:
R
Length:
110 mins