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.
- Candidato a 2 Oscar
- 4 vittorie e 25 candidature totali
- Mr. X
- (as David Patrick O'Hara)
- The Exterminator
- (as Konstantin Khabensky)
- Man in the Limo
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
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- 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
This movie gets all of its charm from the conceit that we know it is all part of the Matrix era bullet time slickness of action and the understanding that it all comes from a comic book anyway so if you have to pick someone up all you have to do is skid sideways right into the person at high speed with the door open and scoop 'em up. No danger of breaking his legs at all. And there can never be too many times two evenly matched assassins demonstrate the fact by their bullets crashing into each other harmlessly in mid flight.
Angelina Jolie has said that sure she is carrying guns in this movie but she condones what happens to the characters so she could get behind the movie. However it resolves, though, most of the movie is a loser's fantasy of having an exciting life. That might very well suit the video game audience under 25 years old. But if you can't get past the improbable efficiency of the team and the improbable stupidity of the protagonist from scene to scene, the big twist that pats itself on the head for its brilliance will seem to belong in another movie. Had the action not been so cartoonish, maybe we could believe what it purports to say. It still exists in a vacuum-sealed circle of geek-hood one expects from Agent Cody Banks. The only difference is that he is twenty-something.
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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