Reviews

A repellent, loathsome film, with a number of premises which you may wish to take issue with:

* Being a hired assassin is an glamorous, exciting job * Violence is acceptable and funny - watch particularly for the scene where Brad Pitt's character kicks the prone Angelina Jolie ... lovely * Guns are great and possession and use of guns is inextricably linked with sexual allure

All in all, like an advert for gun culture. And some of the comments already submitted reinforce this reading ...

Don't even get me started on the wooden acting, the leaden dialogue, and the gaping plot holes ...

Some strong performances, but with some irritating features. The hand-held camera effects - a bit like 'This Life', I felt, with lots of cutting back and forth - and then asides to camera as though Anne and Mary Boleyn were nipping off to the 'Big Brother' Diary room.

A more important flaw was the lack of development of the religious or political themes - these were seen as background to purely personal conflicts - and, other than early in the film when the Boleyn family are shown discussing how to maintain influence at court - not the driving force behind events.

The 'break with Rome' - for example - is mentioned in passing by Anne in a 'Diary Room' episode as though it is about as significant as next week's BB evictions, rather than as a defining episode in European history.