Wanted (2008) movie review Gets Blitzed Rating of 5/5
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Jolie with her sexy skeletal frame doesn’t prevent her from being the lone female member of an ancient fraternity of assassins. Playing Fox, Jolie looks unhealthily slim. The bedlam begins with a shootout in a drugstore and wild car chase alongside Fox, his fearless new mentor. But Wesley’s timid little life is about to swing into extreme action.
An understandably miserable young man, Wesley gulps medication for his anxiety attacks. He’s abused by his live-in girlfriend. McAvoy stars as Wesley, a cubicle-dwelling accountant. Bullets, especially, needn’t obey the laws of nature.
A live-action cartoon, it’s filled with elaborate action sequences that, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon-style, defy reality. Jones’ popular comic book series and guided with undeniable style by Russian director Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch, Day Watch), “Wanted” frequently is an orgy of brutality. Based on Mark Millar and J.G. “Wanted” may be the goriest, most sadistic movie of the summer.
“Wanted”, the new action-fantasy starring celebri-star Angelina Jolie, busy Scotsman James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman in another of his wise-old-man roles, rattled the box office last week with slick ultra-violence and buckets of blood.