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“Shoot this MothaF*cka!” a catchy line said by Morgan Freeman’s character is going to go down in history as one of the most memorable taglines ever, up there in the same level as ‘Say Hello to My Little Friend’. WANTED is as ridiculous as it is awesome. The concept is so far fetched, and yet… the visual effects are very well done, you won’t mind seeing those curving bullets some more. It is a high octane, eye candy, entertaining action flick.

Wesley Gibson lives a life without purpose. He considers himself the most insignificant A-hole of the century. One day he gets visited by a woman who will change his life forever. After a series of confusion and chaos that happen downtown, he meets the people who call themselves, The Fraternity, a group of assassin who kill people for a living. Wesely finds out that his father had been killed by a rogue assassin and so he starts training and training with his mind set on revenge.

Based on a graphic novel I’ve never read, so I can’t really do a comparison, but seeing that it’s got plenty of silly, off the wall sequences, I can imagine that something like this could only exist from the vision a graphic novelist’s creative mind.
A bullet crashes in a head on collision with another bullet… that kinda stuff will leave you saying, “Come on, Get the F outta here!”
But the truth is WANTED doesn’t care about people who think too much, this is a movie for those of us who choose not to over-analyze it and instead…we need to just let the movie show us what it’s got, for everything that it can offer.

The storyline is decent… at times, it’s very predictable. But that’s no surprise, in fact… besides the curving bullet deal…I don’t think it’s completely an original thing. I think they’re right when they say that WANTED is like Matrix on Steroids And then…There’s a part where James McAvoy’s character jumps into a window of a warehouse and starts killing everybody, that reminds me of Christian Bale in a scene from the movie Equilibrium.

You gotta hand it to ‘em though…Cinematographer Mitchell Amundsen and Director Timur Bekmambetov have made the movie look as thrilling as possible. The humor is definitely funny. Danny Elfman’s upbeat, catchy, original score does help a lot in getting our mood into the adrenaline rush. And I think every action movie fan everywhere will not get disappointed, some might just say it’s all right but I doubt that many would say it’s a failure.

Angelina Jolie in this movie is more of a supporting role. She doesn’t get much line to say, her presence is there so that the movie would have one badass killer with killer looks. James McAvoy is excellent at playing a guy who’s scared Sh**less. Morgan Freeman has played a bad guy before (Lucky Number Slevin) so it’s good to see him not playing a good guy again. He’ll have that cold stare like something bad is about to happen if you keep eye-balling him.

My friend who watched the movie with me, Screener Yara made a very good point, concerning the underlining theme.
We’re not saying you should go out there and start learning how to become an assassin.
The message about taking control of your destiny, if you have the talent.. well then use to the best of your ability, don’t waste it away by hiding yourself in an ordinary existence when you can be so much more significant.
What have you done today with your life?!

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