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Wanted
Directed by: Timur Bekmambetov
Starring: James McAvoy
Genre:
Action/Adventure
Run Time: 110 min.
Release Date: June
2008
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Teaser:
Movie Trailer
Reviewed by
Byron Merritt |
Full of nonstop action.
Sexy. Impossible. WANTED is all these and shamelessly flaunts it.
And with good reason: It’s a popcorn flick. Summer is upon us and most
movie-goers demand a few solid action films, and Wanted delivers.
We’ve seen this plot before. A nobody discovers that he/she is a
somebody and develops their “abilities” thanks to the guidance of a
super-dude/dudette. The nobody is cubicle-bound-anxiety-prone-loser
Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy,
ATONEMENT). Stuck in a dead-end job
he constantly feels overwhelmed by his supervisor and must take anxiety
medication to settle himself. Until one day he meets his dudette, the
appropriately named Fox (Angelina Jolie,
A MIGHTY HEART), who saves him
from the deadly crosshairs of Cross (Thomas Kretschmann,
KING KONG), an
assassin gone rogue from within a group known as "The Fraternity." Told
initially by the leader of this group, a man named Sloan (Morgan
Freeman, 10 ITEMS OR LESS), that
"The Fraternity" is a group of “good”
assassins who do fates bidding by getting their kill assignments from
something known as “The Loom of Fate”, Wesley (McAvoy) enters their
ranks in roughshod fashion (being beaten, sliced, healed ...and then
beaten and sliced again) to toughen him up for the job he must do.
His goal, though, is to kill the man who killed his previously unknown
father (Cross being the assassin of Wesley’s dad). But if turning a
no-account accountant into a killer weren’t enough, there’s a
not-so-subtle twist that many might see coming as they watch this bullet
swerving action movie.
McAvoy is completely believable as the dweeb-infused
office-boy-turned-gunslinger, making the premise of the film a joy. And
watching the sexy Angelina Jolie whip out massive handguns and hit her
targets nearly without fail is something that’ll make your
action-packed-weekend fun. She seems so comfortable doing impossible and
ridiculous stunts that it makes them seem possible and plausible.
For those in the mood for a great shoot ‘em up, this one’s a winner.
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Newsworthy:
One of Cross' victims is
identified by the Gunsmith as "Rictus". The main antagonist in the comic
book is Mister Rictus.
Movie Quote: "Welcome
to The Fraternity. This gun you're holding belonged to your father. He
could conduct a symphony orchestra with it."
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