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Wanted [2008] | ![Wanted [2008]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Eu5tXI9WL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Actors: Angelina Jolie, James Mcavoy, Morgan Freeman
Studio: Universal Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 33
Format: Full Screen, Pal
Languages: English (Original Language), Italian (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 106 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.9
EAN: 5050582556056
ASIN: B001DA9U48
Release Date: October 20, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
As 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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 Brainless Fun November 16, 2008
Colbane
Okay, so you can claim this rips off the style of many other films but the director DOES bring his own style to this movie (watch NIghtwatch and Daywatch) and it's all the better for it. When you come right down to it every movie is influenced by every other right back to the first one. Get over it, sit down and have fun.
As for complaining about the acting, it's not going to win awards but McAvoy is an engaging enough actor to pull this type of thing off. Jolie is given little enough 'acting' to do that whatever you think of her, you can't actually criticise her here.
It's a dumb, fun popcorn movie with no pretensions. Everyone's having fun and you know what, it's not a sequel to a movie that's ripping off it's own series. For what it's type I had more fun watching this than say Indiana Jones' latest or anything else that came out recently. 4 stars for it's type, 3 stars in general.
Looks Great November 12, 2008
S (England)
It looks really good, very easy to watch and fun as well. Avoid if you like your films serious and believable but give it a watch if you want a good night in. James McAvoy is great as well.
 Holy **** November 11, 2008
Totally Bushed
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was looking to watch a mindless Hollywood action film tonight. I am halfway through this and my word... wooden, devoid of imagination, unrealistic to the point of parody. Please... what offensive stupidity. What brain numbing crapulence. I'd like to say I'm lost for words but... I'm not. Please can someone return the 60 mins of my life it's taken to finally turn this rubbish off. Ugh.
Update: this film was so awful out of curiosity I finished it. And my my my... How entertaining it finally gets! Especially the sub-Matrix style finale. I can imagine the positive reviewers probably loved this exercise in low budget, B-movie slaughter. I will give the main character some credit for the creative way he uses a bad guys brain whilst shooting the place up. Its so ridiculous its actually an art form in Hollywood vacuousness. If you check your brain at the door and fill the hole with lukewarm custard then maybe, just maybe you'll be titillated.
I thought about upgrading my review to 2 stars just so more people can be educated in how far Hollywood action films have fallen. But I lost the will to interact at this point.
Catatonic.
Plot - Implausible/Special Effects - Brill/Fun Factor - Hillarious November 9, 2008
Mr. Gt Nguyen (UK)
Have just watched it for the second time with my mates and enjoyed it just as much the second time around. The Plot and the plausability of some of the things that happen are beyond belief. But for sheer entertainment value this is a film well worth watching. For those who do, have your pause button ready for when he smacks his mate's jaw with a keyboard as he storms out the office and pause the DVD as you see the keys come flying towards the camera.
Sharply directed thriller November 7, 2008
Stampy (England)
Unsatisfied with his life, Wesley Gibson (McAvoy) joins a group of assassins to hunt down the man who killed his father.
From trailers, Wanted may seem like an ordinary action thriller with a stereotypical list of characters but Bekmambetov's picture is very diverse from your run of your mill conventional genres with a truly intense twisting plot and a bizarre choice of direction.
As good an actor as McAvoy (Last King of Scotland) is, he can't do anything about the stereotypical hero character he plays. Bored with life, feeling he has more potential, hasn't found love etc. These conventions of a central character won't surprise the most optimistic viewer. Sadly Angelina Jolie (Tomb Raider) and Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar baby) are also stereotyped and thankfully the plot makes them slightly different.
Wanted is sharp, fast and importantly interesting and diverse. This film fulfils the action genre with guns, chases and fighting. The thriller genre is also justified through the intensity of the central ideology.
Gibson has joined the assassins to hunt down the man who killed his father and though this may scream that idea of unsung hero defying odds to get retribution, there is a charm about the approach in this picture. Despite logic saying that the clichés and conventions of scenes and ideologies are repetitive, the action and likability about the picture will keep you hooked right till the very twisty end, with one of the best final lines to a film in recent years.
The approach is made intriguing through the direction. Very sharp and sophisticated, Bekmambetov is able to create an artistic action thriller with a slow down motion. As bullets fly, as the pounding in Gibson's head gets louder we are given this stylistic vision of slowness and is so different and bizarre that it simply has to be admired. There isn't one bad shot in the entire film and credit to Bekmambetov who has changed the ordinary view of an action thriller into a piece of art.
His advancement and directness help create that cutting edge to the film and we are thrust into Gibson's life head first.
The plot is exciting and always interesting, if some scenes are predictable and unrealistic. There are many twists and turns along the way which makes Wanted an intriguing thriller with excellent direction, if not the best characters.
7.5/10
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