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- The anxious, clumsy and abused office clerk Wesley Allan Gibson has a hell and boring routine life: his obese boss humiliates him all the time and his girlfriend betrays him with his colleague and best friend during working period. When he meets the sexy Fox, Wesley is informed that his father was a professional killer that belonged to an ancient organization called Fraternity and killed by the skilled and powerful Cross, a hit-man that has betrayed the Fraternity. Wesley learns that his anxiety actually is a manifestation of his latent abilities and he joins the society under the command of Sloan. Trained by Fox, he changes his personality and attitude, being prepared to face the dangerous Cross and find a hidden secret.
- A frustrated office worker learns that he is the son of a professional assassin and that he shares his father's superhuman killing abilities.
- I really enjoy a good assassin or hit-man flick. Really I do.<br/><br/>After a recent string of poor to very bad trained gunmen and assassin-type films (Hitman, Shoot 'Em Up, Smokin' Aces, etc.), I had high expectations for "Wanted" given the top-rate cast and after seeing the stylistic trailer.<br/><br/>Unfortunately, Wanted has way too many flaws to warrant plunking down your $10-$12 to see it in the theater. At best this is a rental. Or if you are patient, wait for it to make it onto HBO or Showtime.<br/><br/>While it has an interesting premise, begins with strong set-up and features some great action sequences, the negatives outweigh the positives. The acting is fairly weak, the development of the protagonist (McAvoy) is rushed and unrealistic (even with my disbelief suspended), the overall pacing is way off, and the plot becomes more and more unbelievable as the movie unfolds. By the time you get to the final act you'll be shaking your head as it is just that bad.<br/><br/>Overall, given the talented cast involved, I was unimpressed.
- Haven't the Wachowski brothers got a lot to answer for? It seems that hardly a day goes by without another new action movie appears, created on a computer using footage shot in front of a green screen in a warehouse somewhere instead of using actors on location. And blow me, as if to illustrate my point, here is another one! Chock-full of all the ridiculous action you associate with CG-infused action flicks, this is one film that doesn't look too good if you peel away the pixels and gawk at what's left.<br/><br/>Wesley Gibson (a miscast James McAvoy) is a bored, weedy office worker who feels trapped in his dull and repetitive life. But before he can scoop up another handful of anti-anxiety pills, he bumps into the oddly-named Fox (Angelina Jolie) who throws him headfirst into a bullet-fuelled adventure. It turns out that Wesley is the son of a super-assassin, a member of a secret society called the Fraternity, who recruit Wesley in order to hunt his father's killer - a rogue member called Cross (Thomas Kretschmann). As Wesley's skills improve under the tutelage of Fox, the Fraternity's leader Sloan (Morgan Freeman) monitors the situation closely as Cross's personal crusade against the Fraternity threatens the organisation's very existence.<br/><br/>It sounds like it should have been an absolute winner but "Wanted" is the architect of its own demise. For example, I can go with the concept of the Fraternity and its thousand years' worth of assassination to "maintain stability in an unstable world". But why do the victim's names appear in weaving from the Loom of Destiny or whatever the damn thing was called? How did they appear before weaving was invented and why did it change to secret messages in textiles and why hadn't they updated it to something more 21st century? Never mind, the pretty CG provides enough distraction to stop you from looking into the plot too deeply while Jolie does her bit by pouting endlessly and occasionally flashing the flesh. As for McAvoy, he is not the sort of actor for this role - the first half of the film is spent whining and screaming a lot then when he realises he's actually a bad-ass, the abs come out and he can't go anywhere without a faintly silly grimace and a gun in each hand. The action, where it comes come, is certainly exciting but only possible in the mind of someone thinking in CG - vehicles don't behave the way they do here and I refuse to accept that you can make bullets go around corners by flicking your wrist when pulling the trigger. Nothing in this movie feels believable - granted, do any of these action films have the faintest whiff of reality to them any more - but when something is so fantastic and so "garnly", it stops being exciting and starts being stupid. Remember when you were a kid, racing your toy cars around the living room and crashing them into stuff? If you still do that then welcome to your dream film! <br/><br/>There are things to commend, however - the CG, while dominating almost every scene, is well done and director Timur Bekmambetov has a terrific eye for the amount of bloody violence shown on screen and how best to shoot it. There is a certain amount of enjoyment to be had, especially when the plot twist arrives and the film really seems to kick into gear but I can't help feeling that "Wanted" is a massive disappointment, that it should have been a film to rival "The Matrix" - something "Wanted" desperately to be - but ends up as yet another wannabe. The reasons for the failure are quite simple: the wrong leading man, excessively silly action scenes and a plot with more holes in than Katie Price's range of knickers. What it needed was a bit more restraint, a brain to tell the inner-child that cars don't flip as easily as they do here and a brief shot of Jolie's wet butt shouldn't be the sole recommendation of a movie. Sadly, with "Wanted" that's exactly what you do get but unless your taste in movies hasn't evolved since the time of your early teenage years then you'll probably find other films more worthy of your time.
- Like it or not, Wanted pretty much slams you to the back of your chair from the outset and scarcely lets up for the duration.
- Wanted is loosely based on a comic book miniseries of the same name by Scottish graphic novelist Mark Millar, with art by J.G. Jones, published in 2003 and 2004 by Top Cow as part of Millar's creator-owned line known as Millarworld. American screenwriting partners, Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, adapted the comics into the original screenplay, which was revised in part by screenwriters Chris Morgan and Dean Georgaris. Wesley Gibson (<a href="/name/nm0564215/">James McAvoy</a>) and the Fox (<a href="/name/nm0001401/">Angelina Jolie</a>) have made the transition to film largely unchanged, the only major differences being their appearance (Wesley being originally modeled on <a href="/name/nm0004896/">Eminem</a>, and the Fox on <a href="/name/nm0000932/">Halle Berry</a>). Wesley's boss, girlfriend and best friend are also largely unchanged. However, as the main plotline of the comic books (in which all of the main characters are actually supervillains modeled on DC characters) has been altered, many other characters were re-imagined or cut entirely from the film, examples being: (1) Dr. Solomon Seltzer (a short, bald super-scientist and friend to Wesley's father) becomes Sloan (<a href="/name/nm0000151/">Morgan Freeman</a>); (2) Mr. Rictus (an evil, ghoul-faced murderer) becomes the assassin Cross (<a href="/name/nm0470981/">Thomas Kretschmann</a>) and is also referenced in the film as an assassin killed by Cross; and (3) The Killer (famed assassin and Wesley's father, modeled after <a href="/name/nm0000169/">Tommy Lee Jones</a>) becomes Mr. X (<a href="/name/nm0641244/">David O'Hara</a>). There are significant changes from the comic book.<br/><br/><ul><li>Perhaps the most significant change is the underlying purpose of The Fraternity. In the comic, The Fraternity are a secret group of supervillains with an array of powers and they behave as supervillains would be expected to: committing crimes and killing people. In the movie The Fraternity is a secret guild of assassins who work to maintain order in the world by assassinating evil people. The film portrays them in a far more positive light than the book.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>The book is far more vulgar than the movie and revels in pushing boundaries of taste in terms of violence and sexuality. In the book characters talk much more matter-of-factly about topics such as murder, rape, pedophilia, and bestiality.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>The backstory of the film is entirely different from the book. In the comic a group of supervillains murdered all the superheroes and erased their existence from reality. In the film a group of medieval weavers-turned-assassins founds the Fraternity to maintain order.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>Most of the characters were wholly invented for the film. While Fox and Wesley make the transition largely unchanged Wesley's father is almost completely different from how he was portrayed in the book, Mr X, Sloan, The Russian, and the Gunsmith (<a href="/name/nm0996669/">Common</a>) are complete inventions. The Repairman (<a href="/name/nm0912938/">Marc Warren</a>) is an expansion of an unnamed character who appears in a few panels in the book, and The Butcher (<a href="/name/nm0049079/">Dato Bakhtadze</a>) is created from a scene in the book where Wesley himself is sent to work in a slaughterhouse to help desensitize him.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>The plot is dramatically changed. While the introduction and Wesley's training are very similar the plot of the comic involves intrigue between different factions of super villains while the film deals with the efforts to apprehend one rogue assassin. In addition the film focuses far more on Wesley's quest to avenge his father. While the book version of Wesley is interested in knowing who killed his father it is not a driving aspect of his character.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>Scenes of Wesley's training are greatly expanded in the film.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>The film version of Wesley is considerably nicer and more sympathetic than the comic version.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>The film includes far more moral conflict about the nature of what The Fraternity does than the comic book.</li></ul> Derek Haas and Michael Brandt have already been hired to write by Universal, but the sequel has been in development hell for the since 2010 or so. The song is called "The Little Things", and is sung by the film's composer, Danny Elfman. No, but there are a couple of interesting shots that give clues about the development of the plot. One of them is when Wesley leaves his apartment early in the film, he tries to straighten a sign on a pole warning about rats. That sign is posted over another one reading "Your fathers's". Following the scene, the camera focuses on the apartment where it's later revealed that this is where his real father lived, thus, composing the message: "Your father's apartment". The scenes with the Russian also give clues, since he seems to be the only true friend among the weavers. He ultimately gives Wesley the key to achieve his father's objective by showing him about the combination of peanut butter and plastic explosives, and saying "imagine if you had a thousand". a5c7b9f00b
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