It was not the worst movie I have ever seen, but the plot was incredibly dumb. The utterly ridiculous premise about super-assassins being sent to kill each other, or just one, while they operate without any clue regarding evidence, DNA or other real world issues. Also, the entire premise of hiring an assassin then making them guess who the target is seems pretty stupid. What assassin would take such a job, and what idiot pays money to maybe have the wrong person(s) killed?
The plot holes are enormous.
The premise of the movie is that the Virtuoso is a professional assassin who is remorseful for an accidental killing. His Mentor, for whatever reason, decides he needs to be dead, but instead of just killing him when he had ample opportunity, the Mentor devises a complex scheme whereby 4 killers are sent on a mission to kill *someone* for *some reason*. Each other? Just him?
In the near-final scene where the Virtuoso meets his killer, they discuss inane issue. The *Deputy* could not be made to look like he was killed by bad guys because he had the real Deputy's body in the trunk of the Sheriff's vehicle. The police would not overlook that when investigating the fake Deputy's death.
The guy who had a heart attack induced had several fake ID's in his wallet, leaving only one at random would not fool police into thinking he was just some poor schmuck, it would, they would discover it was fake, he had a gun, etc. Hilarity ensues.
The final living killer is just as nonsensical as he is. Apparently, to the writer, getting away with murder is a common and easy experience requiring very little in way of not leaving evidence. She has sex with the Virtuoso, which makes no sense if she knows she will kill him, takes a shower allowing the Virtuoso to find her passport and figure out who she is. She then kills him after their ridiculous *one-professional-killer-to-another* conversation, goes to his house, feeds his dog and and nearly shoots it but changes her mind.
The plot makes me wonder which one of the actors read it and thought "that is possible and could happen in real life, I would like to be a part of this."
Donnie Darko is not real, but it isn't supposed to be, and is an entertainment masterpiece. The Virtuoso is supposed to be something that could happen in real life, is a trainwreck of unrealistic logic and events, and generally is not very good.
Plus the ending sucked. They could have ended it like the Mechanic, where he died but everyone else also gets killed by his revengeful nature.
The plot holes are enormous.
The premise of the movie is that the Virtuoso is a professional assassin who is remorseful for an accidental killing. His Mentor, for whatever reason, decides he needs to be dead, but instead of just killing him when he had ample opportunity, the Mentor devises a complex scheme whereby 4 killers are sent on a mission to kill *someone* for *some reason*. Each other? Just him?
In the near-final scene where the Virtuoso meets his killer, they discuss inane issue. The *Deputy* could not be made to look like he was killed by bad guys because he had the real Deputy's body in the trunk of the Sheriff's vehicle. The police would not overlook that when investigating the fake Deputy's death.
The guy who had a heart attack induced had several fake ID's in his wallet, leaving only one at random would not fool police into thinking he was just some poor schmuck, it would, they would discover it was fake, he had a gun, etc. Hilarity ensues.
The final living killer is just as nonsensical as he is. Apparently, to the writer, getting away with murder is a common and easy experience requiring very little in way of not leaving evidence. She has sex with the Virtuoso, which makes no sense if she knows she will kill him, takes a shower allowing the Virtuoso to find her passport and figure out who she is. She then kills him after their ridiculous *one-professional-killer-to-another* conversation, goes to his house, feeds his dog and and nearly shoots it but changes her mind.
The plot makes me wonder which one of the actors read it and thought "that is possible and could happen in real life, I would like to be a part of this."
Donnie Darko is not real, but it isn't supposed to be, and is an entertainment masterpiece. The Virtuoso is supposed to be something that could happen in real life, is a trainwreck of unrealistic logic and events, and generally is not very good.
Plus the ending sucked. They could have ended it like the Mechanic, where he died but everyone else also gets killed by his revengeful nature.