Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk ReviewAs 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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Rating: - Thoroughly ridiculous flat-pack thriller. Pointless.
This film is an average hollywood assassin thriller, which so far, puts it at average marks. The plot is ok, the plot twist is highly predictable, but not bad as such and the action sequences are solid at best. The cinematography is your traditional lush blockbuster visual style, which suits the film. That was the good stuff.

Now for the bad stuff. The action sequences are like I said, solid.. in most places, that is. A great deal of the action scenes involve stupid, completely unfeasible ... Read More

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Rating: - 110 mints of pure violence
Wanted was brillent in so many ways. The most violent film I seen in a long time but had a dark twist. I like comic books but this one rocked. The 18 meant they could go much more futher with the ways. I'm a big James Mcavoy fan and Angelina Joile I loved. It was pure gold for a US comic book. Blood of mayhem and his character got torched lodes of times.

I like Morgan Freeman from the dark knight and many other US films. In this one he played a dark character for assaintents and he had fighting ... Read More

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Rating: - Is Somewhat Wanting...
Big and loud and magic twisty bullets oh my! It's certainly jam packed with action pieces. Y'know...the usual really silly CGI enhanced suspension of disbelief stuff.

The plot's taken *very* loosely from the graphic novel which featured a secret society of super villains who had destroyed all the superheroes, made everyone forget and then more or less controlled the world.

In the movie version, we have assassins with enhanced senses and who can fire bullets miles away with point blank ... Read More

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Rating: - wanted
wanted seems to have been cast aside in film of the year polls and been overshadowed by the (stunning) dark knight.for sheer mindless friday night thrills though this delivers in spades.its an ott,violent ,foul mouthed action packed blockbuster that doesnt take itself seriously and if you go along with it you'll have a blast. the cast look like they did,james mcavoy and angelina jolie are terrific and theres enough blacker than black humor here to even out the gruesome,nasty violence.action scenes are terrific with ... Read More

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Rating: - Wanted - 110 minutes back please
Mindless violence with no particular purpose, a plot that should have stayed on the back of a cigarette packet and actors going through the motions for a pay cheque. Big, loud, brash action cannot disguise a premise and plot so preposterous that this should never have made it through the script re-writes. I can see the market for eye candy and cartoon violence movies (and have enjoyed many in my time), but this sets a depressing precedent for taking any iota of intelligence out of a script to present supposedly raw ... Read More

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