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Wanted (Single-Disc Widescreen Edition)
Average Customer Review : 3.5/5 based on 135 reviews
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Editorial Reviews
As the impresario behind gravity-defying Russian blockbuster Night Watch, it's inevitable that Hollywood would come calling for Timur Bekmambetov. With a studio budget and an international cast, including two Oscar winners, Timur cooks up a Hong Kong-styled actioner bursting with fast cars and big guns. Our unlikely hero is mild-mannered Chicago accountant Wesley Gibson (Atonement's James McAvoy), whose father died when he was a tot. Wesley never learned to stand up for himself, and his girlfriend, boss, and best buddy all take advantage until the seductive Fox (Angelina Jolie) rescues him from a sharpshooter named Cross (The Pianist’s Thomas Kretschmann). After which, she whisks him away to a mansion on the edge of town to meet the other members of the Fraternity, where leader Sloan (Morgan Freeman) informs Wesley that Cross, a rogue agent, executed his father. Sloan believes Wesley has the goods to take him out, so he undergoes the Fraternity's brutal training regimen (Marc Warren and Common dish up some of the abuse). When he's ready, Sloan sends him out to fulfill his duty, but matters become complicated when Wesley finds out someone isn't telling the truth, leading our former milquetoast to exact an elaborate revenge. For those who've been following McAvoy's career to date, Wanted will surely come as a surprise. In adapting Mark Millar's comic series, Timur offers buckets of blood and a smidgen of depth, but fans of The Matrix and Mr. and Mrs. Smith will want to give this one a look. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Spotlight Reviews
Ok (2009-01-09)
Customer Review : 3
The movie is ok. Great action scenes, but I wasn't impressed with the premise of the movie.
Loved it! (2009-01-08)
Customer Review : 5
Okay with modern technology comes Hollywoods ability to make things grosser, and more realistic. This movie has no shortage of f bombs and other extremely violent and bloody scenes. With that said, . . I LOVED this movie. Action packed, edge of your seat, nail bitter. James was very convincing as the average Joe stuck in meaningless life. Angelina was very convincing assasin, Morgan, . . I mean heck its Morgan Freeman. Well, casted, beautifuly filmed, nice storyline. Very entertaining. As a mom though, . . .VEWIER DISCRESSION ADVISED!!! Not for the young!!
Deeper Message In The Action (2009-01-08)
Customer Review : 5
The story of a well meaning secret society being hijacked and taken over by a corrupt thug has a lot of parallels in the real world in regards to secret societies that were transformed into nihilistic, narcissistic death cults, who are obsessed with the acquisition of profit and power, and are the reason for a lot of the world's misery and suffering.
Sure the action is all eye candy but the movie is a loud, clear and brutal message about taking back control from murderous, Machiavellian manipulators(the wolves) whose only goal is total domination and "godhood" through the suppression, subjugation and eventual extermination of the world's masses(the sheep) as a pretext for creating a New World Order.
Good movie with some very good actors (2009-01-08)
Customer Review : 3
This is a good movie which has some very unique special effects. Most were done in moscow so they are pretty far out there. The idea of bending a bullets flight and seeing two bullets hitting each other is not that believable, but seeing Angelina and Morgan freeman again was worth the price of the DVD. Story line was some what believable.
I Guess The Laws Of Physics Isn't Something The Filmmakers Wanted... (2009-01-07)
Customer Review : 3
Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy, who impressed me in The Last King Of Scotland till I learned his character didn't exist in real life) is a young twenty-something who's life is droll and predictable. He suffers from what he thinks are panic, headache-like attacks whenever he's provoked. Then one day he finds out through a mysterious woman (Angelina Jolie, who seems a little too old to play this Lara Croft look-a-like at this point) that he's the son of a former gone-rogue member of an elite group of assassins called Fraternity, who have special abilities of quick reflexes and healing powers. Brought in by the groups leader (Morgan Freeman collecting one Hell of a paycheck here), he's told of his past, very quickly trained in a variety of wild and unbelievable murderous ways, and is sent on a mission to use his new sharpshooter skills to kill the man that murdered his father. But is the team he's on the good guys or not?
Good question. Wanted is a fun but highly unbelievable story featuring some crazy CGI-filled stunts that base the movie in the fact that you can shoot a bullet like a MLB curve-ball. Cars are flying all over the place, trains are derailing with good guys barely getting a scratch, and heroes getting stabbed in the hand and sharp-shooting perfectly the next. In fact, if this movie reminded me of anything, take all of the Sci-Fi aspects of the first Matrix film, smarten-up Keanu a bit, and you have the first hour of Wanted to a tee. This definitely is one of those "leave your logic at the door" type of over-the-top films. But unlike the previous years "Shoot 'Em Up", this one will have you groan the phrase "Oh, c'mon on", than say it with glee. At times it's well-placed humor is put interestingly, but overall it's hard to believe plot and impossible in the real world stunts might be too much to fully keep you in the movie.
Concerning the single-disc edition, I can barely suggest it as an informative rental, much less a purchase. The SD picture and audio do live up to those standards, but outside of 6 minutes of start-up trailers (which can't be chosen afterwards), this disc has nothing but movie. But the movie does have alot of eye-candy in it, and will keep you entertained, but you gotta wonder, if your shirt had a few misstitching in it, is it trying to tell you a code to kill a certain person? No I didn't think so.
Pros:
*Alot of wacky, cool car chases and bullet travels in this movie,
but really it's a bit too much to be believed.
*James McAvoy proves you don't have to be Shia LaBeouf to play a 20-something in the wrong place at the wrong time in 00's movies.
*If you're a fan of Freeman and Jolie, well.....they're in this movie. Just think how they laughed all the way to the bank on this one.
Cons:
*The "Oh, C'mon!" factor is very high here.
*The ending, though at times clever, makes you think these guys take their job way too seriously.
*Though she's only five years older than McAvoy in real life, seeing these two kiss makes you hum the rock classic "Hot For Teacher". Hope he got at least a B for that performance there.
(RedSabbath Rating:7.0/10)
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