Wanted Movie
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Choose your destiny.
"Wanted" tells the tale of one apathetic nobody's transformation into an unparalleled enforcer of justice. In 2008, we're introduced to a hero for a new generation: 25 year old employed slacker, WESLEY GIBSON. Wes is the most disaffected, cube-dwelling, clock-punching drone this planet has ever known. His boss chews him out hourly, his girlfriend ignores him routinely, and his life plods on in interminable boredom and routine. Everyone knows this disengaged slacker will amount to absolutely nothing, and so does he, until he meets the sexy, foxy woman named FOX, and then everything changes. Wes' estranged father is murdered, and the deadly Fox recruits him into The Fraternity, a secret society that trains him to avenge his father's death, by unlocking his dormant powers. And oh boy does he have powers, as she teaches Wes how to develop his lightning-quick reflexes and phenomenal agility, he discovers that The Fraternity lives by an ancient, unbreakable code: to carry out the death orders given by emotionless Fate itself. Wes, with his wickedly brilliant and sexy tutor, plus the paternal guidance of The Fraternity's enigmatic leader, SLOAN, young Wes grows to enjoy all the strength and success he ever wanted. But, slowly, he realizes there's more to his dangerous associates than meets the casual eye. And, as he wavers between new found heroism and vengeance, Wes will come to learn what no one can ever teach him; that he alone controls his destiny.
| James McAvoy | Wesley Gibson |
| Morgan Freeman | Sloan |
| Angelina Jolie | Fox |
| Terence Stamp | Pekwarsky |
| Thomas Kretschmann | Cross |
| Common | Gunsmith |
| Kristen Hager | Cathy |
| Marc Warren | The Repairman |
| David O'Hara | Mr. X |
| Konstantin Khabensky | The Exterminator |
| Dato Bakhtadze | The Butcher |
| Chris Pratt | Barry |
| Lorna Scott | Janice |
| Sophiya Haque | Puja |
| Brian Caspe | The Pharmacist |
| Timur Bekmambetov |
6.80 out of 10 (100171 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Great movie all-in-all
posted on 31 Aug 2009I really enjoyed watching this movie. Pretty good acting by McAvoy (Wesley) and his partner in the movie Jolie (Fox), but it's a bit like a fairytale for kids. too many inconsistencies and plot changes and the reaction of the characters is a quite far fetched.Wesley learns that his father, who abandoned him, dies, and tries to fit in his big shoes. and as the story goes, he becomes as good or even better then him at killing people.The special effects are really worth the while, the story a bit less.I just wish they hadn't made the story so unbelievable as they did, but all in all is a fun movie to watch thanks to some great actors and really good special effects.
Good ACTION Movie.
posted on 31 Aug 2009Wanted had a lot going for it. Mostly, crazy action scenes never before seen like this, if ever. Comical narration and good acting, plus the ever hot Angelina Jolie (Who i think really has gotten even better looking). This comment will be short, just to say that Wanted really is good and full of action fuel. The story makes sense and while it may be odd, who cares? Many comments on here have pointed out that us normal Americans (aka, those of us living here) are too dumb to realize that this is a horrible movie. Maybe we just realized going into it what it was, an ACTION movie, focusing on what may i ask? THE ACTION. To the attention seeking critics who give this movie poor review, get the stick out of your butt, and stop thinking you're better then everyone. It makes sense, its original and action packed, enjoy this movie.
Wanted something better
posted on 27 Aug 2009I had a lot of expectations for this one. The visuals seemed stunning, the action heart-throbbing and the cast remarkable. And those thing were there but I just couldn't shake the feeling of this movie being nothing more than a paycheck.All the memorable dialog, scenes and concepts seemed all TOO familiar. The bullet cam was taken from the video game Max Payne, the keyboard to the face scene from an internet show called PurePwnage, the last line was also taken from a famous Bob Ross parody, the train cart scene was reminiscent of an old children's show based on a popular toy, and I could go on...I can look away and call them a coincidence but the last straw was the story. It was preposterously bad! Nothing made any sense, it seemed like they just pulled it out of a hat to house the action. All the characters the protagonist has to fight have no depth to them, this guy can do this, this guy can do that and in the end the hero has to fight the guys that can do this or that. Pathetic...As I exited the theater trying to keep my mind off the senseless favorable criticism that was going on behind me, I heard someone say "If I was 13 and saw this movie, it would've been the best movie ever". And that's what it is, a children's movie that tried to captivate the adult mind through pointless sex scenes and drama.
Brainless fun
posted on 27 Aug 2009This movie makes no sense. Holy sh*t is it fun!I don't read graphic novels. I generally don't like movies made from graphic novels or comic books.However, I have a powerful ability to suspend disbelief. And this is the greatest suspend- disbelieve movie of 2008.Angelina Jolie is named ... wait for it ... Fox! With a twist of the wrist, bullets fly around corners! A fraternity of assassins that is a thousand years old has discovered binary code! Total losers are really heirs to the fraternity! By being constantly beat up, your assassination instincts will emerge and you can shoot down bullets aimed at you with your own bullet! And you can enlist an army of exploding rats as your personal army! And the best way to invade the castle of your enemy is to run in and grab the guns dropped by people you have just shot!What's not to love?I like it that action movies are moving into absurd territory. People might see themselves in The Godfather. Nobody will see themselves in Wanted. Unless they are insane.
Saving these summer sellouts
posted on 25 Aug 2009"Welcome... to the Fraternity. This gun you're holding belonged to your father; he could conduct a symphony orchestra with it." Sloan (Morgan Freeman)It's never comfortable to find out your estranged father was a great assassin, nor is it comforting to know that his ancient "Fraternity" of assassins needs you to avenge your father's death. A little Hamlet, a bit of Matrix, and a tad of Da Vinci Code, Wanted tells of Wesley Gibson's (James McAvoy) change from a "pussy" account manager to a world-class assassin under the guidance of Fraternity teachers Fox (Angelina Jolie ) and Sloan (Morgan Freeman). Wanted doesn't lack for imagination in its magical realism of bullets bending in flight and wounds miraculously disappearing, nor does it lack for clichés and stereotypes of the thriller genre, including car chases as good as any others in contemporary cinema. After all, that CGI stuff is what American films do best, often at the expense of crisp dialogue or deep characterization.Even the actors are their own stereotypes: Jolie's Fox (now that's truth in advertising) plays a dangerous operative who can shoot a giant firearm as if she were Lara Croft; Freeman's voice once again soothes the savages; James McAvoy does the Toby Maguire innocence just right. And although Jolie has the least dialogue, and probably the biggest salary, the shot of her backside may be the most memorable image outside the spectacular train wreck high over a gorge.As in so many action-packed, hero-driven movies today, the hunt is not just for bad guys but also for who the hero is as a person, a quest saving these summer sellouts from shameless superficiality. Fox: I knew your father. Wesley: My father died, Wesley: the week I was born. Fox: Your father died yesterday in the rooftop of the Metropolitan Building. He was one of the greatest assassins who ever lived. And the other one is behind you (shoots).
Movie With Unexpected End About Assassin Fraternity
posted on 25 Aug 2009When i first saw the trailer of this movie, i think it will be a stereotype kind of movie with many technologies and heavy computer elements like The Matrix Trilogy. And also the actors with great names are only a few in this movie, like: Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie. The director, Timur Bekmambetov also isn't really famous for his work. But i thought i maybe give it a shot to see it. It turns quite good! James McAvoy acted this movie very well. He could changes his Irish accent into American accent.And he poured his entire emotions into this movie, so his quality as an actor is really shown in this movie. The plot of this movie quite interesting. It's about a fraternity who raised many assassins. I don't really want to talk about the ending of this movie because i want all of you to watch it. It's highly recommended!
Don't waste precious time in your life watching this.
posted on 25 Aug 2009I gave this movie 1 star ONLY because some of the special effects are good, though ALL of them are now time worn, and thoroughly worn-out in moviedom. How many more "people on wires" and "slow-mo / John Woo" effects do we, the public, have to suffer through before Hollywood starts making GOOD movies again? The acting was, in short, awful. Then again, I have no particular liking for Angelina, without a doubt the MOST overrated actress ever. I AM a fan of Morgan Freeman, but I guess Morgan, like Ed McMahon, must REALLY be behind on his mortgage and really needed the paycheck from this production.Apparently, if you want a vehicle that goes fast, do NOT waste your money on a customized Viper, just buy a 20 year old Holsum Bread van and put a bunch of bobbleheads on the dash.This movie is strictly an extremely crappy rip-off of Star Wars ("Luke, I'm your father!"), The Matrix, and The Fight Club.I could include TONS of spoilers here, based on the ridiculousness of this movie, but you already KNOW all of them if you've watched the movies mentioned above.For gawd's sake have some sense and, if you're over 12 years old (physically or mentally) do NOT waste your money, or more importantly your valuable TIME, watching this work of garbage.
A more appropriate title
posted on 23 Aug 2009Two words: THE IMITATRIX(Gosh, what a shame that IMDb doesn't allow a user to dismiss with a pithy two-word dismissal a quite mundane and by now quite hackneyed display of special effects enlivened solely by the magnificent, if wasted, presence of Miss Jolie. Instead, it requires that I go on blabbing about a movie that really doesn't deserve the effort it takes to type this out solely because "the minimum length for comments is 10 lines of text." Well, in order for this not to be classified as padding the comment "with junk words" and "being blocked from future submissions", I guess I'd better mention that the film managed to leave out the only remotely interesting aspect of the comic-book mini-series upon which it was based, the fact that the gang of assassins into which out hero is dragged is a satiric comment on the super-villains faced by Superman and Batman in the DC Universe, substituting them with sometimes obscene or scatological versions. "Clayface", for example, becomes "S**thead". You get the idea. Good fan-boy fun, if you like fan-boy fun.)There. Have I said enough now? Sigh...
A thrill ride that is "Wanted"
posted on 23 Aug 2009In the summer action movie sweepstakes, Wanted is the prize winner. Based on a six-issue comic series by Mark Millar and J.G. Jones, Wanted provides the appropriate thrills, action and engagement needed for a strong summer movie extravaganza.Wanted focuses on Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy), a nobody in a minor, dead-end job with an overbearing boss and a best friend who is getting horizontal with Wesley's girlfriend during lunch breaks. However, when picking up a prescription one day, Wesley is greeted by Fox (Angelina Jolie), who informs him he is the son of a great assassin who was just murdered by another assassin, and is now the killer's target. She takes him on a whirlwind chase, and then introduces him to Sloan (Morgan Freeman), the head of the Fraternity, an order of assassins a thousand years old. Sloan informs Wesley that he has the same potential to be a superb assassin as his father, and thus leads to Wesley standing up to his boss, his girlfriend, his friend and beginning his training to become a member of the Fraternity.Wanted exudes much of the same energy as The Matrix, as well as sharing a similar visual flair, without necessarily ripping off the former film. When the action sequences kick in, they are a rather spectacular sight to behold, featuring a great deal of stylization and visual acrobatics that astonish supremely. Yes, the logic behind many moments in Wanted is completely nonexistent, featuring such elements as "curving" bullets and killers so trained that they can manage to shoot a weapon with the exact trajectory to stop another oncoming bullet. But that doesn't really matter, Wanted grabs you when necessary and you just come along for the ride. The film is also helped along by some very strong visual effects that blend rather seamlessly with the surrounding live-action material.Wanted, much like the early summer success Iron Man, also understands that to really get into a story, we have to be involved in the characters, and with Wanted, our entry point is Wesley. He starts out as a character almost all of us can identify with, the downtrodden cog in the machine, coasting through his days with a feeling of inevitability and hopelessness. By letting us feel sympathy for Wesley, we have a rooting interest in what happens later, and therefore are involved in the film's action.James McAvoy gives us a vulnerable character in the form of Wesley at the beginning of Wanted, who then transforms into an assassin, but we never lose our identification with him. Angelina Jolie doesn't have a whole lot of dialogue, but makes an impression as Fox nonetheless. Morgan Freeman fills his character with a mixture of both authority and menace, proving once again what a masterful actor he is.Wanted is nothing tremendous on the plot front, it doesn't offer the audience anything too deep, but that is not necessary. It is a summer thrill ride, and at that, it succeeds exceptionally.
Top 5 worst movies of all time
posted on 23 Aug 2009Good god on mighty; If I can encourage anyone not to go to see this movie I will be happy; Without doubt one of the worst moves I have seen recently. Zero plot; Zero acting; all mashed together with the most ridiculous special effects you have ever seen.I think that the director decided that it would be better to replace the cast with wooden dolls to get a more authentic performance because the acting was dire.Is there any possibility I can give this movie minus points? In short 2 hours of my life I am never getting back; bad, bad oh just so bad.
Worst Movie Ever!!!
posted on 23 Aug 2009What a waste of film. How come these actors even bother with this crap? Angelina Jolie would have been worth watching if it weren't for the fact she looks like a anorexic crack-whore.Jesus Christ, most of action seems to have been done by a 14 year old kid on his dad's PC.Not a single iota of plausibility in this pile of sh.t. The director should be shot along with studio execs who green lighted this.Morgan Freeman should've know better.Makes The Matrix look like a Merchant Ivory masterpiece.If its not the worst movie ever, its the next best thing.
Why, why, why.
posted on 21 Aug 2009I'll start this with saying that I can't usually be bothered to write a movie review. No matter how good, or bad a movie is? There's far better people than me when putting down their thoughts that so often match my thoughts. However, I'll make an exception with Wanted.--This post will contain spoilers, not sure how to hide them--Walking into the theater, I was more or less certain of what to expect. A bunch of superhuman beings kicking each other's asses. Even though I enjoy cultural and classic movies, I'm not the type that'll go with 'unrealistic, duhh.Am not watching this, this is kiddy stuff'. On the contrary, I dig superhero films. I like unrealistic movies. So, I'll start with my likes for this movie.Likes:-Great special FX. They didn't waste any resources. They tried to make it as impressive and they succeeded. It was far better matrix quality in some scenes. -The main hero was very nice in his role. He fit the role like a glove, he was convincing. One could 'bond' with him and feel for him at certain stages.-Action, Action, Action. The movie's like a fast rolercoaster that doesn't stop for a moment. From moment one, to the end. Chases, shoot outs, more chases, training. It doesn't give the audience a breather, and the audience is happy for it.-Overall, enjoyable in its strong points. Here comes the sad list of dislikes though....Dislikes:-Jolie. I like her. I think she's sexy. I think she was seriously mis-casted. She was trying too hard to put the bad girl look on, which just...Didn't click for me in this movie. Sorry.-Plot Holes : This is my favorite part of it all, really. As I said, I don't mind non-realistic bits, or flying cars, or curved bullets. But, let's break down the movie to a reasonable level.1.'A thousand years ago, a band of assassins was created. to read names, and kill people'Fair enough. In the situation though that only one person reads names. His name could come up, and well...oh wait. It actually happened. Tip: When you got a machine, passing around death sentences, best to have more than a single person at the 'reading committee'2.'You are his son. You're the only one he wouldn't harm'So the master assassin has a son. That he knows about. That all his assassin friends know about. That he's ready to die for. Why not just capture his son, and tell the guy 'Come in, or we kill him'. Seems to me he was ready to die for his son. Oh wait. He did.And if he knew his son was his Achilles' heel. Why did he wait to the end to tell him. Why didn't he just........give him a call?3.'Kill him'Never ceases to surprise. When the death order is passed on the star. Everyone's shooting at him, trying to kill him,with him surviving it. And of course, when he reaches what I'd like to call the 'dialogue area', in our case a circular room? No one tries to shoot him anymore for some reason. Did anyone hear a 'cease fire'? Beats me.4.He lied to you. My father is innocent' 'Is this true?' 'etc. etc.'The big climactic fight. So, let's take maths and statistics into account for this one.One room. One star. One end-boss. 12 bad guys.The boss clearly states to all 12, that he's lied. Once more, beats me why. He could've answered as 'No, I am not lying. shoot him'. End of story. Our hero had no proof, no evidence, whatsoever.Instead, he admits lying. And then tells all the rest that their 'own names had come up'.The sad part, is that all 12 believe him.The nice part, is that Jolie's character serves as proof of the golden world rule.'In a group of morons, their leader outbest the rest'5.'The End Scene'So, we go to the end scene. And Sloan decides (once more, escapes me why as he could do so earlier and in a much more convenient manner), to kill our hero.For being the guy who taught everyone everything they know. I find it kind of sad that he actually had to step two steps behind the poor guy, to try and kill him.Serves him right. Gets assassinated by a bullet from 10 miles or so away.Conclusion : You don't have to give an action movie a plot, to make it a nice action movie. If you bother with one, do put some effort in it please. It's hard to make all characters seem like geniuses, of course. But don't make them look so damned retarded. :)
Non stop action and great fun!
posted on 21 Aug 2009I expected this film to be the type of movie that showed the best bits in the adverts and left you with nothing but filler to watch but I was wrong, from the first few minutes the film had action and it never seemed to stop. Jolie makes killing look easy and cool(not sure that's a good thing in real life but hey this is film and fiction after all) McAvoy did a good job with US accent and was far better at the action than I expected. If you're looking for heartfelt drama or Oscar worthy acting don't go to see this and then moan, this is a film for people who like to go the cinema and just enjoy themselves and yes it's far fetched but so what it's loads of fun too.The last few times I've been the cinema I've come away disappointed, the films I saw were either garbage or I could have enjoyed just as much sitting at home on DVD(and paid less for popcorn) but films like this were made for cinema, they are loud, fast, overwhelm the senses and are hugely entertaining. This is the type of film I'll end up buying on DVD to watch again and again when I want a film that I can switch off to and just thoroughly enjoy.
I wish
posted on 21 Aug 20091.I wish I had back the hour that I endured watching this pile of crap before walking out. 2.I wish I had read the IMDb reviews before even thinking about going to watch this garbage.This movie is probably the most disgusting, repulsive insult to the intelligence that I have ever seen, and believe me I've seen some turkeys in my time. The violence is non-stop, pointless, ugly and repetitive to the point of nausea.James McAvoy, who showed such promise in The Last King of Scotland, plays a nerdy loser in a dead-end job who discovers his purpose in life, which is to become a top assassin and unquestioningly off the alleged "Bad Guys" in a variety of disgusting gore-porn ways. By the way, we're never told what these alleged "Bad Guys" have done or will do. They're just bad OK, trust us. Did George W. Bush contribute to this script?This movie is basically the masturbatory gun fantasy of every 13 year old loser who has ever dreamt of getting revenge on all those who have ever picked on him.Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman phone-in their parts. I can forgive her as she has no acting skills so speak of anyway and is only in the movie as eye candy (not my taste, but there you go). But Morgan Freeman must be behind on the rent to put his name to this shamelessly immoral load of rubbish.As a sci-fi fan I have no problems in suspending disbelief, but this movie apparently takes place on the planet Earth where, last time I checked anyway, the laws of physics still apply. The first real "Yeah right" moment occurred when the main baddie raced a Viper in a delivery van. WTF? Sorry to say I rolled my eyes at that one and didn't stop rolling them until I'd had enough torture and got the hell out of the theatre.Please please avoid this movie. It will only be if we stop going to movies like this that Hollywood will stop insulting our intelligence.
another print to film?
posted on 19 Aug 2009This film, if taken on its own, isn't all that bad. If you are looking for realistic actions and plausible situations, please do your homework.I am not sure if this is a comic adaptation, but it sure looks like one. In fact in many of the scenes, it reminds me a lot of Matrix and Sin City.The movie basically keeps a good pace with plenty of action sequences between short conversations. Now this is where I love the movie. The dialogues are short, concise and sweet. the only thing I didn't like, the main character being such a useless punk at the beginning. However his transformation into a top-level killer seems rather rushed, sudden to say the least.The twist in the story was expected from the very moment he was made to believe he is the heir to a "great" legacy. There I smelled the rat and thought it would be far too simple, too straight forward, a movie to be made today.Angelina Jolie is beautiful, however, I had expected more out of her than the role she played in this action movie. BTW, she is showing some aging since her last movie.Overall, the big names are wasted here. This movie could have been made with less budget on the names and more on the story.
A one time watch.
posted on 19 Aug 2009A story involving a progeny of some sort of super heroic assassins.Some good action sequences + some impossible combat techniques(curving bullets around corners) + Jolie.... all these make this a good one time watch. Nothing beyond that.Some what like the matrix, a normal guy doesn't know he has some powers in him, people approach him, make him realize his powers, and he becomes the best in business.Little unrealistic, because a textile loom generates a binary code, which are the orders, who to assassinate next, preventing them from making a unforgivable mistake in the future.The boss turns out to be the traitor, the enemy turns out to be the friend, the hero takes revenge. typical stuff..
Dumb fun
posted on 17 Aug 2009Based on comics by Mark Millar and JG Jones which I had never heard of, Wanted tells of a put-upon wimp (James McAvoy) who discovers that he is the son of a member of a league of assassins called The Fraternity who can do such amazing things as shooting bullets round corners. In very short order he is trained up by fellow assassin Angelina Jolie, on the instructions of Fraternity head Morgan Freeman, to pursue and kill the man who killed his father. This involves various savage beatings for reasons which are never wholly clear, and some trainee junior level assassinations based on targets identified from binary characters coded into fabric woven by an automatic loom which has been functioning for 1,000 years since The Fraternity was a Guild of Weavers. I think - that bit didn't make a vast amount of sense.Let's be honest, the whole thing didn't make a whole lot of sense. But maybe it wasn't meant to. Maybe it was meant to be a vehicle for the several eye-popping Matrix-style action set pieces. Put brain on hold and accept the improbable elements as they come along, and you'll like it just fine.Morgan Freeman does his elder statesman bit, Angelina Jolie does a variation on Lara Croft, Terence Stamp pops in momentarily as zoned out as usual, and James McAvoy proves that he can hold centre stage in an action movie as convincingly as everything else he does.The action is great, and there are some laughs too. It's not a classic - it's far too dumb for that - but it's a perfectly satisfactory popcorn movie.
style over substance. not exactly a triumph, but it's over it
posted on 15 Aug 2009Timur Bekmambetov's first American film isn't that far removed from the kinetic, hyperactive and sometimes just plain f***ing batty movies Night Watch and Day Watch. It's about the "Fraternity of Assassins", who get their missions from clues hidden in a giant quilt, I guess, and it's also about Wesley (James McAvoy), a regular white-collar worker, and his strange, dark adventure of self-discovery in this fraternity of who he really is- an instinctual, almost-mutant killing machine, meant for revenge by his mentor Morgan Freeman (who, thankfully, is a villain for once in a great while).What is there to say about this then.... well, it's never boring. At least as far as I could tell I never did nod off. That being said, it makes last year's Shoot em Up look like a documentary in comparison. And this isn't necessarily a good thing; a movie might be totally crazy with the over-the-top manners of killing people (in this one we get bullets that curve, bullets that hit one another, heart rates reaching 400 BPS, and rats who bomb the joint, reminding one of the armed penguins in Batman Returns), but does it make it a really good movie?Not in this case I'm afraid. This is a shame since James McAvoy is a very good actor, one who's very convincing, funny, and believable even when put in the most unbelievable circumstances. He practically carries the first third of the film on his own, this despite him being put in a totally crazy car chase that continues some of the ready-to-break rules set up here by Bekmambetov. And there's even some good star power with Jolie, acting like BIG ACTION STAR Angelina Jolie, and Freeman in a part too easily readable for his own good. But by the end we're given a plot and choice in technical style that knocks off Matrix, Fight Club, La Femme Nikita, a slew of John Woo movies, two turtle doves and a pear tree un-partriaged, and the last quarter of the film is just escalating, laugh-out-loud madness that skids the line between suspenseful and totally ludicrous, and eventually falls over the latter side.Would I recommend Wanted? No, I wouldn't, at least if you're paying for yourself. But if you're invited, go along and take a chance. You'll leave a little shell-shocked, but you might not be totally sorry you went. Well, might.
Nothing Else Can Compare
posted on 15 Aug 2009Every once in a while, a movie comes along which breaks every rule set down by decades of films before it. Every era has at least one, and ever since the Matrix came along, with its seamless integration of psychedelic CG, incredible imagination, and jumbled direction that always leaves you slightly perplexed but wanting more, (an experience only slightly hindered, in my own opinion, by Keanu Reeves' acting,) we've been living in the era in which action movies strive to follow in its footsteps, (even to the point of casting Keanu Reeves, god knows why.) Now Wanted has come along that beaten path and the rules have been broken again.If I were to describe Wanted as a rigid film connoisseur, I would probably have to give this movie a 4/10. A movie with barely any plot, direction, character development, closure, with predictable twists and uninteresting situations etc. A movie which breaks not only every film law in the book, but also the fundamental laws of physics, gravity, reality, biology, etc, etc, etc.However, I cannot give this movie anything but a 9, because Wanted was nothing short of an astounding and awesome, and I do mean awesome, action flick I could watch every day for the rest of my life, and I doubt I would ever get bored with it. The numbness inflicted when I watched the ending sequence left me in a state of awe and wonderment I have yet to recover from. The only thing preventing me from giving this movie a perfect 10 is because it is far from perfect.As I've already mentioned, the story is somehow both simplistic and convoluted, Wesley - the protagonist- is as shallow as the rest of the cast of characters and is occasionally annoying with his overuse of words and phrases, which thankfully deviate from most classic one-liners, the direction zig zags all over the place, and you could see every plot twist coming from a mile away, if you were paying any attention to the plot that is. But I found myself forgetting all of this because of how awesome everything else was.And if you can go into a theatre, watch this movie, and see nothing but the problems in the above paragraph, believe me when I say that you are missing out on the cinematic experience of a lifetime.Again, this is an era in which CG can determine the quality of an action movie, and Wanted could never have existed without the effects it uses, and while this frequently this makes movies insubstantial and weak, it's far from true in this case. This movie blew my mind, and if you can set your disbelief aside for two hours to watch it, it will probably it will do the same for you.
Just Okay
posted on 31 Aug 2009First and foremost, I did NOT go and see the movie just because Angelina Jolie was in the film. Actually, that was one of the reasons why I wasn't jumping off the couch during the trailer commercials to go and see.But husband and I went to go to the movies, and besides Wall-E en espanol, that was the only other one at our local theater worth watching. It is action pretty much from beginning to end. If you are into not a lot of talking, and more action - this is the film for you. The characters weren't as well-defined as I would have liked. I love to see Morgan Freeman in bad-ass character roles - it's so out of the norm for him. The curving of the bullets reminded me of the matrix, and instead of putting more unique action in the movie, it seemed that this movie was ALL ABOUT curving the bullet.. I mean they kept doing it over and over again... Enough already!There is a really cool scene where Jolie is using the new military rifle that shoots around corners.. very nice - I just seen that one on future weapons. Other than that, the story line is a bit cheesy. She is all gung-ho about "The Fraternity" but really, no ONE person made the movie. Overall, I give it a 7/10