This is the kind of movie where star power of the leading actress (Angelina Jolie) carries the day, and you forgive a lot of semi-plausible action sequences, and even the lead character's "is she or isn't she good/evil" arc throughout the movie is a bit bumpy, but eminently watchable, with crazy pacing that tries to overcome the predictability of the 3rd act with action, action, and more action.
I found Jolie a little scrawny in some of her hand-to-hand combat scenes, but I'll just chalk that up to her being more wiry than just frail, but had Jolie added 5-10 pounds of muscle, she'd look more capable of what her character was able to do with aplomb, which is dispatching highly-trained secret service guys with clockwork precision. It'd be a nice matinee viewing to beat the heat this summer.
I give it 2.75 stars, or a grade of B-.
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