Un timido impiegato scopre di essere il figlio di un assassino professionista e di aver ereditato dal padre un talento sovraumano per uccidere.Un timido impiegato scopre di essere il figlio di un assassino professionista e di aver ereditato dal padre un talento sovraumano per uccidere.Un timido impiegato scopre di essere il figlio di un assassino professionista e di aver ereditato dal padre un talento sovraumano per uccidere.
- Regia
- Sceneggiatura
- Star
- Candidato a 2 Oscar
- 4 vittorie e 28 candidature totali
- Mr. X
- (as David Patrick O'Hara)
- Man in the Limo
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Recensioni in evidenza
Just take it as it is and it is very good. The special effects are excellent and action is non-stopped. There are plenty of jaw-dropping moments in this movie.
Chances are that most of the stunts are highly unlikely, but you're watching a movie, purpose to entertain. It's like watching a superhero movie, no spiders don't make men that shoot webs, or rage that turns someone into a superhuman green giant, but they do entertain.
I was very entertained. If you like action, check this movie out and you will not be disappointed.
People don't like the idea of a man making a giant leap across buildings, about the "plot of the world" and the ridicule in the movie.
But at the same time I guess they DID like Trinity's jump in Matrix, destiny (sadame) in any Japanese movie or comedy of Mr and Mrs Smith.
COME ON PEOPLE! This is NOT James Bond, Bourne or Die Hard. This is exactly the opposite. This movie in my opinion simply tries to make fun of all those movies. It's all a sarcastic view of today's action movies. Just like the bullets - bent to the fullest. For me it's more of an action comedy. The ideas are so stupid that it's funny. Why? Because it was fit in the action movie. I mean come on - the loom, the bullets, the healing stearine, the rats... How can you ever compare it to any action movie that tries to be serious? This is not trying to do that.
That's why I liked this movie - for its intelligent sarcasm and probably because of all the negative comments from people that expected a "mature action movie" and didn't understand the movie.
Lo sapevi?
- QuizJames McAvoy screentested for the lead role in early 2006, but was initially rejected, as the studio wanted a more "conventional" leading man. He was later recalled when the producers decided that his character was more "the runt of the litter." The studio ultimately changed its mind and wanted someone geeky. McAvoy got the part.
- BlooperBoth kill orders include a statement, starting "I Hereby Acknowedge..." It should be spelled "Acknowledge".
- Citazioni
Janice: Jesus H. Fuckin' Popsicle! I still don't have my billing reports, but you've got time to sit there and Google your ass off? Well, I know one thing: you've got your review coming up next week, and I can't wait to start checking me off some big *fucking* *boxes*!
[clicks her stapler for emphasis. Wesley cringes at every click]
Janice: Attitude: *poor*. Performance: *poor*. Management skills: *poor*. Works well with others? Ha! That's a fucking joke.
[looks at Wesley's computer]
Janice: What is this bullshit; who's this prick? Some loser gets his head blown off in the Metropolitan...
Wesley: SHUT THE FUCK UP!
[the office grows quiet]
Wesley: [to co-workers] She has ONE, SINGLE iota of tenuous power! She thinks she can push everyone around?
[grabs Janice's stapler]
Wesley: You don't need this.
[throws the stapler against the wall of his cubicle, smashing it]
Wesley: I understand. Junior High must've been kind of tough, but it doesn't give you the right to treat your workers like horseshit, Janice. I know we laugh at you, Janice. We all know you keep a stash of jelly donuts in the top drawer of your desk.
[crouches down]
Wesley: But I want you to know, if you weren't such a bitch, we'd feel sorry for you. I do feel sorry for you. But as it stands, the way you behave - I feel I can speak for the entire office when I tell you... go fuck yourself.
- Curiosità sui creditiThere are no opening credits. The title appears as a headline on a newspaper well into the movie.
- Versioni alternativeThe Australian theatrical version cut a 10 second sequence where Wesley jams a gun through a dead man's mouth and uses his body as a shield while he shoots down other gunmen. This version was rated MA15+. Oddly enough, when the DVD came out, it had a sticker on the cover touting the film as "Uncut". While this was true -- and the violence in the gunfight had been re-instated -- the DVD carried the same MA15+ rating.
- Colonne sonoreHappy Birthday
Written by Mildred J. Hill and Patty S. Hill
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Dettagli
Botteghino
- Budget
- 75.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 134.508.551 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 50.927.085 USD
- 29 giu 2008
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 342.463.063 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 50 minuti
- Colore
- Mix di suoni
- Proporzioni
- 2.39 : 1