Wanted
A film about an elite group of assassins. A “Fraternity”. I don’t really know where I stand with this one. Ok, I’m lying, I hated it. Angelina Jolie really needs to stop being in shoot-out movies. Is that really the only genre she is capable of existing in? Long story short; decent comic, terrible film. It was immediately apparent that the roots of the action style was heavily derived from The Matrix’s bullet time sequences and Fight club’s underdog story.
The first building shot was composited terribly. It was so blatantly obvious that the building used in the scene was comped in. The key lighting didn’t match, and the figure chroma was university grade-esque (gross). I don’t get how they could make the rest of the visuals beautiful where bullets bend around corners and pierce skulls, while they can’t even light a scene decently? Shows you how terribly balanced the budget would have been for VFX. Probably all spent buying flowers for Angelina.
Morgan Freeman unpredictably played a mentoring role, while Angelina exposed her buttocks for the 7 millionth time, and brandished a gun while pouting. Everything about this was predictable. Barely any structure or plot, but plenty of shooting, car chases and train crashes.
Though the comic is closely matches shot to frame, they stripped out the super villain attribute of the characters, sacrificing them for slightly more ‘believable’ people with the ability to spike levels of adrenaline (thus making them think faster). Way to kill what would have been an excellent super villain movie… The ‘plot’ was all over the shop, and the twists could be seen a long while off. I think the weakest plot hole is that they predict targets from pieces of cloth from some fancy weaving machine, while anyone could just cut out a scrap from a craft store and claim it to be part of the prophecy. It’s so central to the plot that they end up all dying. Pretty weak.
- Me: seen wanted yet?
- Me: it’s so horrible
- Tim Bond: don’t remind me of the piece of shit experience
- Tim Bond: There was a point I didn’t think it could get any worse and then it did
- Tim Bond: is it bad for me to want the main characters to die?
- Me: It was sooooooooooo bad
- Me: dude, you should get back into movie review schtuff
- Tim Bond: Oh I so would
- Tim Bond: but I have currently found a hobby that is taking all of my spare time
- Tim Bond: and it is not masturbation.
It was still fun to watch ( I took my pal Fran to see it and it was a blast!) but wow; what a terrible remake of every shooting movie ever. You are best saving your ticket money for another screening of The Dark Knight, Or Hellboy II.
haha *dies of laughter* Tim used the word masterbation
He used it so well.
I saw the trailer and got quite excited, but when it came to me deciding whether to see it or not I just had a real bad feeling it would be shit, so I’ve put it off for a while, and now I know why. I think I’ll be giving it a miss
I had no desire to see it. At all.
If you’d like to see where this filmmaker is coming from you should check out Night Watch and Day Watch, two far more creatively successful films made in Russia for Russians. Very fun and visually unique.
if i had seen it, and liked it, i would probably start an argument with you over it. instead, i shall just attack you with punctuation !!! :::: ;;; ?!
i do like the director Timur Bekmambetov a lot and really liked “?????? ?????”… that’s so Russian.
Avoiding this one like the plague.
Shoot ‘Em Up was probably just as bad.
Ugh, i just realized my uterus has elongated, and is now visible under my FUPA.
Pasquale,
I actually enjoyed this movie, but I had no previous knowledge of the plot or underlying themes from the comic either.
With that, I was entertained to no end with it - but was a little let down towards the end … that and there were quite a few unnecessary loop holes that I had found but won’t go into.
Sorry you didn’t like it. I haven’t posted my review on it - but I will sometime soon.
Catch ya on the flipside!
Boon out.
I’ve seen it yesterday, and thought it was kindof .. “meh”. It was entertaining, but it was like a 3 hour plot crammed into 90 minutes. I thought it was missing pieces, the action was over the top (I mean, a Mustang jumping over a Corvette and a few shots later the Corvette doesn’t have a scratch and the Mustang is still drive-able? Come on).
Anyway.. Angelina needs to gain some weight too..
i didn’t like WANTED either. so glad someone agrees.
I love your site and your artwork. i’m twitter-friending you. beware.