Action wise it would have made for a fine super-hero flick if they had just dropped the curvy bullets. I really don't understand why they had them in it, they served no point to the plot, and the few action scenes that contained them could have dropped them without harm. I'm willing to allow the super speed and strength, and even perhaps shooting the other guys bullets out of the air, we're talking about characters that I've already acknowledged are super-heroes beings, but the curvy bullets are going too far.

Let's start with the first instance of plot induced stupidity: Mr. X. The story is that Mr. X has just taken out these four mooks, and then one of their phones rings, so he picks up, and starts talking to someguy called Cross. Their conversation goes for a little while and then ends like so:

Mr. X: "Don't send sheep to kill a wolf."
Cross: "I didn't they where just the distraction."

At which point Mr. X, our super assassin, with massively-heightened reflexes, takes a couple seconds to look down at his feet to see a cross, and then stands there until he gets shot. Now I don't know about you, but if I discovered that I'd been lead into a trap and that I was now standing on an X, I'd probably move.

And then to make it worse this happens again, with a different character later in the film.

The other main example of plot induced stupidity is right near the end: Our hero has revealed to the rest of the assassins that Sloan has been making up kill orders for his own profit. So what does Sloan do to counter this, he reveals his ace in the hole:

Drum-roll please.

He has kill orders for all of the assassins. You know the same kill orders that he has already admitted to being willing to falsify for his own personal benefit. Now sure this could be the last futile attempt to save himself, except that not one the half a dozen other people room even thinks about this for half a second.

And finally we have The Loom. I mean I'm sure if I ever discover some pattern in random values I'm going to assume it's a list of people to kill. Isn't that the logical conclusion?

I suppose that's reasonable, I mean hey their only humans they don't matter anywhere near as much as a dumb ape.

I know some people will think I'm just being silly about this, but I think it is a good example of this strange effect in our culture where doing something "bad" to an animal** has a greater negative emotional response than doing the same thing to a human, and therefore tends to be seen as worse. Which is a sad comment on our culture indeed.

* Which admittedly would not be suitable way to treat sapient creatures (like humans), but is acceptable for dumb, non-sapient animals.

** This mostly applies to cute animals (like kittens), and nearly always does not apply to icky animals (like spiders).

PS. I have a strong belief that all animals have certain basic rights, OK mostly just one, the right to be killed humanely before being eaten. :-)