Doormat Wesley Gibson is an office worker whose life is going nowhere. He meets an attractive woman named Fox and discovers that his recently murdered father - whom Wesley never knew - belonged to the Fraternity, a secret society of assassins which takes its orders from Fate itself. Fox and Sloan, the Fraternity's leader, teach Wesley, through intense training, to tap into dormant powers and hone his innate killing skills. Though he enjoys his newfound abilities, he begins to suspect that there is more to the Fraternity than meets the eye.
Direction
Bekmambetov's Russian chaos energy invades Hollywood.
Stunts
Jolie trainsurfing and that 360° bullet curve.
Editing
Hyperkinetic cuts that somehow never lose geography.
Director
Timur Bekmambetov
James McAvoy
Wesley Gibson
Angelina Jolie
Fox
Morgan Freeman
Sloan
Terence Stamp
Pekwarsky
Thomas Kretschmann
Cross
Common
The Gunsmith
Kristen Hager
Cathy
Marc Warren
The Repairman
David O'Hara
Mr. X
Dato Bakhtadze
The Butcher
Konstantin Khabenskiy
The Exterminator
Chris Pratt
Barry
Lorna Scott
Janice
Brian Caspe
The Pharmacist
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The loom actually exists: the Jacquard loom's punch cards inspired early computer programming. The writers weren't just being weird.
This film killed the mid-2000s 'bullet time' era by making bullets ridiculous again—directly influencing the bonkers action of later films like Hardcore Henry.
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