This film does that admirably, and it can be said that all the automatic stuff in the middle of the film is arranged to set up this satisfactory ending. But the form is common enough now to have some endemic problems, the most challenging of which is how to end the film. I am not sure when this reversed form first appeared I am hoping a reader can advise. We, the viewer, are placed in the thing to be befuddled as we end up as the manipulated soul. In reverse noir, the character somehow can control the world, so that minor coincidences are anticipated, even controlled by a plan he has that we do not know. The watcher unconsciously manipulates the character. He is subject to cosmic coincidences that come not from any natural unfolding, but from our need to have a structured narrative. In noir, we have a hero, an everyman, who is manipulated by the world of the viewer.

Why this film deserves a comment and others I see do not, is the way it ends. Our designated watcher, the typical American detective, also does his job: watching at a distance. The assassin does what he is supposed to and does it well: show us unexpected ways that he can manipulate the world, anticipating coincidences and odd subplots. The girl does what the girl is supposed to do: claim that she is sexually exploited, and then proceed to be exploited by us in much the same way. It is easier somehow to believe a cabal lead by a Moscow Patriarch instead of the inept Rome. Its the spice of the priests that matters, after the Dan Brown conspiracy to make it seem ridiculous and taking the style out of it. I also liked the mashup, conventional as it is: Russian mafia, secret supercapable murder enterprise, worldwide conspiracy of priests. Instead of a name, he simply has the number 47. Apparently, the agent in the game is one of the 47th generation of clones, where the movie has him as the best of a collection of specially trained orphans. This is also why the fan base rejected it. The curious thing is that what it did well, it did not because of what it is, but because it did not stick closely to the world of the video game.

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