If you think a slick, violent assassin movie that looks like a video game waiting to happen is not your genre, think again. This film is one big, intensely original, action-packed super-rush. Audiences audibly gasp, cheer, clap and hoot at the amazing chase scenes, mostly because they’re unlike anything ever seen on the big screen.

James McAvoy stars as mild-mannered accountant Wesley Gibson, who is about to be driven mad by the banality and routine of his meager life. In crashes Angelina Jolie, playing super-assassin Fox, a member of an ancient secret society known as The Fraternity that has been enforcing its own brand of justice for centuries. Fox reveals secrets about Wesley’s heritage that destine him for far greater and deadlier feats. The film races through his hero’s journey.

Morgan Freeman, Terrance Stamp and rap artist-turned actor Common also star.

Rated R.

-- LJM