A young man (McAvoy) finds out his long lost father is an assassin. And when his father is murdered, the son is recruited into his father's old organization and trained by a man named Sloan (Freeman) to follow in his dad's footsteps.
It would be understandable to be leery of an action thriller that opens portentously with the words "A thousand years ago " and then goes on to tell of an ancient "clan of weavers" who formed a murderous fraternity.
But this kind of inadvertent humor is combined with an intentionally snarky attitude and dark comedy to make Wanted (* * 1/2 out of four) more enjoyable than it ought to be.
Much of the entertainment value comes from jaw-dropping stunts and explosive action sequences, which are high-octane fun.
Yes, bullets bend, blood spews, cars crash and bodies are punched, stabbed and shot up. But the look of the film, as directed by ...
Wanted straddles the line between the delightfully absurd and the merely ridiculous. As its heroes race through the city at barely subsonic speeds, they execute the kind of maneuvers that are normally performed only by 8-year-olds making "vroom vroom" noises. As digital effects approach seamless integration with live-action footage, what dazzles is not the sophistication of the technology but the audacity of the ideas, and Wanted has audacity to burn.
Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) is a nobody. Really, the nobody. He's such a blank that he doesn't even show up on Google. A scrawny, squeaky-voiced cubicle drone, he is henpecked by his girlfriend, cuckold...
When we first meet Wesley (McAvoy) he's far from a hero. Like Edward Norton's protagonist in Fight Club, Wesley is a wage slave office drone, stuck in his cubicle, bullied by his boss and his girlfriend, and prone to anxiety attacks. According to Wesley's own voiceover, he's an "insignificant asshole" who is "finding it hard to care about anything these days. In fact the only thing that I do care about is not caring about anything."
This is a familiar enough scenario. What doesn't generally happen to men like Wesley is the arrival of Angelina Jolie as Fox, who tells him his father was part of the Fraternity, a cell of super-assassins, and that he must now assume...
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