The Contractor (2007)

This is an old school action movie where it is hard to always know who is the bad guy and who is the good one. It was picked out by my youngest, and we watched it in the immediate post-Oscar nominated movie watching period that can be dangerous, because everything seems like crap in comparison. Not so here. Wesley Snipes is a great protagonist, and while he is a hired assasin, he is our hired assasin. He is a CIA operative who kills on foreign soil at the behest of his government. Unfortuantely, his boss is dirty, and so when he does a final job for him, he is then a wanted man, not just by the Brits, which is where he carried out the murder, but also by members of the CIA who want to stop him from talking. He gets some help from a wily and grieving tween, and he manages to look like the good guy while defending himself, and not killing anyone who isn't already breaking the law.