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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.
2008 · Directed by Timur Bekmambetov · 110 min · Action · Thriller · Crime · Screenplay in the scene database · 14 frames
Tagline
Choose your destiny.
Plot
In Chicago, Wesley Allan Gibson works at a dead-end desk job with an overbearing boss, takes medication for panic attacks, and lives with his abrasive girlfriend Cathy who cheats on him with his co-worker and best friend, Barry.
One evening, Wesley is told by a woman named Fox that his recently murdered father was an assassin, and that his killer, Cross, is now hunting him. When Cross and Fox engage in a shootout, Wesley panics and flees. Cross pursues Wesley, who Fox manages to help escape. Wesley awakens in a factory surrounded by Fox and other assassins.
The group's leader, Mr. Sloan, forces Wesley at gunpoint to shoot the wings off several flies, which he does. Sloan explains that Wesley's panic attacks are actually a rare ability that allows him to produce massive amounts of adrenaline, granting him superhuman strength and speed. Wesley's father and Cross were members of the Fraternity, a society of assassins that maintains balance in the world, headquartered in a repurposed textile mill. Sloan wants to train Wesley so that he may help kill Cross.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Chris Morgan, Derek Haas, Michael Brandt
- Cinematography: Mitchell Amundsen
- Edited by: David Brenner
- Music: Danny Elfman
- Production design: John Myhre
- Produced by: Iain Smith, Jim Lemley, Jason Netter, Marc Platt
Cast
- James McAvoy as Wesley Gibson
- Angelina Jolie as Fox
- Morgan Freeman as Sloan
- Terence Stamp as Pekwarsky
- Thomas Kretschmann as Cross
- Common as The Gunsmith
- Kristen Hager as Cathy
- Marc Warren as The Repairman
- David O'Hara as Mr. X
- Dato Bakhtadze as The Butcher
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Kickstart Entertainment, Universal Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, Marc Platt Productions
- Budget: $75,000,000
- Box office: $342,463,063
- Themes: mission of murder, secret base, secret organization, death of father, instinct, train crash, revenge, betrayal, fate, based on graphic novel
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