#29

Wanted







Director: Timur Bekmambetov

Cast: James McAvoy ("Wesley Gibson"), Angelina Jolie ("Fox"), Morgan Freeman ("Sloan"), Thomas Kretschmann ("Cross")

Review: Wesley Gibson is a loser. He hates his job, he hates his boss, he hates his best buddy because he screws his girlfriend and he hates everthing about himself.
But then he meets a woman at the supermarket who tells him that his father, whom he has never meet, died yesterday on top of the Metropolitan building. She tells him that his father was killer and that Wesley has the same abbilities. He can make his heart go 400 beats per minute and therefore slow everything down. After a wild and spectacular chase through the city, she takes him to "The Fraternity". The groups leader, Sloan, tells Wesley that his father left him $3.6m and that he (Sloan) wants him to join "The Fraternity" and kill his fathers killer Cross.
Wesley joins them and has to undertake a very hard training. When he is finally ready to face his father's killer there's a surprise waiting for him....

"Wanted" is a straight down action festival. The story is smart and thrilling. The cast is well chosen and very good. And the effects are as groundbreaking as "The Matrix".
When at first you feel sorry for Wesley's life you very soon start to envy him. But at any point of the movie you are totally sympathetic with him. Everybody seems to screw him, but he finally gets a chance to lead a life that he enjoys.
The effects are spectacular and at no point plate. It really is a lot of fun watching the movie. The idea of shooting in a curve is really cool even though it doesn't make a lot of sense, but "Wanted" is an action flick after all.
After "Gone in 60 Seconds" "Wanted is only the second film in which I can stand Angelina Jolie and even think she has certain qualities. Although she will never achieve the same level of hotness as does Natalie Portman or Kristen Bell.
There is however one thing that made me laugh in outrage: Why the hell do the assassination targets come from the "Loom of Fate"? This is bullshit and everybody knows it.
The Magical Loom of Fate? Come on! Hollywood can do better than that.
In spite of that "Wanted" is one of the most entertaining and best comic adaption of this year.

8.6 out of 10 curved shots