Wanted
Just saw Wanted, so I'm going to try and review it while it's fresh in my mind.
First, wanted tells the story of Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy): your average 20-something cubicle slave living a perfectly average insignificant life until one night, an assassin named Fox (Angelina Jolie) shows up and tells him that his estranged father was part of a league of assassins known as The Fraternity, which is run by a man named Sloan (Morgan Freeman). Now, Wesley has to learn his late father's trade and take out the man who took his father out....ridiculous action ensues.
My verdict: it was decent. The movie took a few liberties with physics (such as curving a bullet's trajectory in order to hit your target around corners and stopping your opponent's bullet in mid-air by hitting it with one of your own), but that is not always a bad thing. For the most part, this movie wouldn't really be that interesting without it. Now that I think about it, the movie was just kind of an excuse to show a bunch of "mind bending" Matrix-esque effects. Of course, this is my opinion of the film while knowing nothing of the original work, a graphic novel (comic book for grown-ups) of the same name.
First, wanted tells the story of Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy): your average 20-something cubicle slave living a perfectly average insignificant life until one night, an assassin named Fox (Angelina Jolie) shows up and tells him that his estranged father was part of a league of assassins known as The Fraternity, which is run by a man named Sloan (Morgan Freeman). Now, Wesley has to learn his late father's trade and take out the man who took his father out....ridiculous action ensues.
My verdict: it was decent. The movie took a few liberties with physics (such as curving a bullet's trajectory in order to hit your target around corners and stopping your opponent's bullet in mid-air by hitting it with one of your own), but that is not always a bad thing. For the most part, this movie wouldn't really be that interesting without it. Now that I think about it, the movie was just kind of an excuse to show a bunch of "mind bending" Matrix-esque effects. Of course, this is my opinion of the film while knowing nothing of the original work, a graphic novel (comic book for grown-ups) of the same name.