I had never heard of this movie, not so much as a whisper, despite the fact that it has an assload of talented people. According to IMDb, it's an action comedy but I found the comedy to be seriously lacking.On the inauguration of President Obama, a man (Joe Anderson) begins his first day at The Factory, a building hosting two teams of rival assassins --the Alphas and the Omegas-- in a bureaucratic stalemate. He soon learns that his ex-girlfriend (Odette Annable) is on the opposing team and that the head of both teams, codenamed The Devil (Jeffrey Tambor), has been murdered just after setting the failsafe that will destroy the building. Alphas and Omegas battle time and each other to find an exit.
This was a terrible movie. On paper, it seems kind of cool but it fails miserably in practice. The dialogue is crudeness masquerading as humor and is not handled well. The character development is nonexistent. It tries way too hard to make the "twist" at the end seem relevant, witty, or in any way not telegraphed from a mile away. The love story between the two characters seems tacked on and the overarching message is that this assassin program was a legacy of George W. Bush and that Barack Obama's presidency would sweep away the need for all covert operations in a shining beacon of government transparency. I don't care what your personal politics are, that's just stupid and ham-handed. I hope everyone involved in this got a decent paycheck because there is no other reason for them to be involved.
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