Silent Assassins - Lautlose Killer

"How did two American's wind up in the Russian oil business?" Maya (Skya) is a Russian ballerina living with her wealthy husband and daughter. Her husband Michael (Slater) is working with a Russian oil firm when suddenly millions of dollars goes missing. The mafia decides to take matters into their own hands and goes after Michael and frames Maya. All she has on her mind is revenge, and the safety of her child. I first off have to say this was nothing like I expected at all. That said this movie has been done a hundred times...most recently called Colombiana. I have no problem with a strong female action hero, I think that is refreshing...but the only reason I think they introduced the ballet aspect is so when she starts to fight it seems legit. Before you question that line...yes, she uses ballet moves to fight. Lots of spinning and high leg kicks to take down her assailants, when that started I started to lose interest and by the end I was just waiting for it to end. This movie could have been so much better but ended up just a little too cheesy and generic for me. Overall, a movie with potential but fell short. I give it a C.

Did I read that right? "Does what ever she can using her skills at ballet," I'm sorry, i have complete and utter respect for the training and discipline ballet dancers go through. But without any formal Martial Arts training ballet would be about as affected as putting out a fire with rubbing alcohol. No vote for I will not be seeing this one. You can set this one next to Gym-kata for worst skills to mix with kung-fu. And the shameless use of Christian Slater as a star to get people to see the movie is reprehensible. Has he fallen so low that he has to use whatever crap that comes along to get some airtime?? oh wait... Oh yeah, Hollow Man II...

So I'm late to reviewing this movie, I just saw it for the first time on cable TV. But felt like sharing. It seems like we all have the same opinion.

The movie itself was fairly polished. Pretty decent acting for the most part. The scenes all made sense and the plot was continuous. Some cool scenes like the bald guy assassination scenes were good. The main actress was attractive to watch.

So I can't say it was totally worthless or complete garbage. It had some merits. The quality was definitely good.

Sadly the plot is just so insanely bad, it makes it laughable. Up to a point I was enjoying it. Then when I realize a 90 pound ballerina is going to turn into Bruce Lee, I had to laugh. Seriously, when I saw the main guy die, I'm thinking "how does he get revenge? It can't be the 90 pound ballerina!!".

The fight scenes are bad. She faces 2 300 pound muscle-head brutes and manages to swing her tiny frame to beat them up? Errr, no. Then she does a ballet move, a jump in the air with legs spread and somehow kicks two brutes out. The video is so poor it doesn't even show contact, it's just her jumping in front of them and them falling.

I can't give it a 1 because it's not totally worthless. I mean if you want some giggles, it' s worth a watch.

Terrible but the one redeeming moment is the prison fight (not a spoiler, it's shown in the trailer twice). That scene was utterly ridiculous but worth rewinding to watch a few times.

The actors in this are all really good actors and they also do a good job in this, the problem is the movie they are doing is not written or directed great.

You will recognize a lot of the actors but like a lot of these movies that have big casts with a lot of recognizable names it's like they assume that's enough and that they don't need to worry about the other aspects of the movies like the writing and directing because they already have all the star power they would need to draw in audience and make money.

That's really all it comes down to is money, and I'm sure with the star power this movie made money they just didn't worry about it being an Oscar winner or anything :)