Wanted:

Well holy shit. That is the phrase I found myself uttering under my breath about every 10 minutes or so, sometimes a few of them in a row. This movie is just a giant pile of action with an annoying narrator and basically no one else talking until Morgan Freeman, as my friend said, "went back to black" for the end of the movie. I would not call myself a fan of James McAvoy, but he needs to either stick to his native Scottish accent or spend another full year attempting to develop his American accent, because he was just irritating, and the only thing you hear for a significant chunk of time, distracting from what he is actually saying; could have been interesting, I got a feeling it was, but to bad I never got to it.

The story was decent, has a few jack knifes in the script, nothing anyone who wants to can't figure out a few minutes ahead of time. Again, probably even more interesting if the voice telling you the story didn't make you want to reach into the sound booth and smack the fake accent loose before it does anymore damage. That said, it does, in the Hollywood way, raise a few questions everyone can ask themselves, wouldn't dig to deep, because again, its just a movie, and shouldn't really be causing deep consideration after a bullet just took a chunk of brain with it.

O, the violence, the action, they just dish it out with no regard for human life in the theater or around Chicago where they filmed it. While it seems they could have used an extra $10 million to dust off...no that is to nice; to redo many of the special effects, you take it with a grain of salt, because what you just saw was so insanely, well insane, questioning the quality of the medium it was delivered to you on would be like questioning the quality of the cheeseburger you just got in a paper wrapper when it came from a frozen pack and a microwave, the mediums work together, leave it alone.

This movie should be pushed as far and as wide as it can go by scientists. Why you ask? Why would I want a summer action movie to be seen by all everywhere? Because its been a while since we've been given such an obvious tool to prove and proliferate natural selection. Go ahead, if it seems like a plausible idea, try and fire a bullet around your friend, you'll be put in jail for murder, and removed from the population, and if you have any aim at all, your friend won't be much use for the propagation of stupid.

Bottom of the page calls for bottom line. Your bored, its Saturday night, and your in the mood for some messed up fun, skip the things that are frowned on and check out Wanted. You'll at least come out laughing, not that its stupid, but laughing that they just stuck with it. They know bullets don't curve, but people in cubicles don't get to become assassins either, so move on, see where they go and enjoy. Its a hopeless effort trying to compare this to anything but itself.

HEY! Common is in this movie! He says about 1/4 of the dialogue Jolie does...so you might miss him!