Turns out that McAvoy is the son of a professional assassin and he's got it in his blood to be one as well. Well one morning he's the target of a shooting and saved by girl Rambo Angelina Jolie. He's even having woman troubles as his girlfriend is being completely faithless. Our protagonist James McAvoy is a drone of a human being working almost like Jack Lemmon at his desk, taken advantage of by everyone senior to him as Lemmon was in The Apartment. I can see in Wanted where the current cult TV hit Mr. But maybe the noise was to cover up the idea that the story was off the wall and unbelievable. Nice to see that Wanted was given Oscar nominations in two categories related to sound. Reviewed by bkoganbing 3 / 10 Off the wall But the biggest drawback is Bekmambetov, whose excessive style makes the likes of CRANK and GAMER look like sedate Merchant Ivory productions. The action comes thick and fast and with it a great deal of heavy violence, and on a superficial level the film admittedly works. Morgan Freeman sleepwalks through his role and Angelina Jolie is given little to do other than pout and snarl on occasion, but other, minor parts are given to effective performers like Thomas Kretschmann and Terence Stamp. James McAvoy is fine for the most part, apart from a single car chase in which he screams and whines like a girl for the entire duration. WANTED is given some decent credibility thanks to the actors who populate the parts. We've got cars rolling through the air, trains dropping through the sky and, in the film's neatest concept, bullets that can actually bend around obstacles. What follows is extremely fast paced, never for a moment realistic, and full of the kinds of unbelievable OTT scenarios that will give even the most hyperactive child a headache.

Plot-wise, WANTED borrows heavily from both LEON and THE MATRIX in the story of a young, slightly nerdy man working in a dead end office job who finds himself being indoctrinated into a world of assassins and massive, CGI-heavy action sequences. Slick but over-stylised action flick from the Russian director behind the NIGHT WATCH movies.

Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 6 / 10 Fun, but you've seen it all before

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