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Wanted!

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
by FoxSpellCaster

I was first recommended to watch Wanted by a random person who watched Timur Bekmambetov’s other films he had directed. I had no idea what I was watching, no idea about the comics, no idea about the director, and no idea about the actors. I feel this was the best way to walk into this movie cause I knew there was going to be some good action and nothing else.

The movie was extremely good with action sequences that I’ve never seen or dreamt of before. While the acting was as good as the action cause I never once thought of the actors as acting. As a comic book movie I was disappointed in the lack of comic feeling for most of the movie, though the loss of the comic book feeling made the movie that much more exciting for me.

Plot is very important to every movie, and this one had a good one. Nothing out of the ordinary but good enough to keep you on your toes. Sadly I saw through this as the clues were beyond obvious to me, but this didn’t impact my view of the movie even though I would been more excited if I didn’t figure it out till the last second. The twists were good, and key to a good action slash revenge film.

Style used in the movie was great with weapons and ammo with a personal style unique to the assassin that was wielding them. This was beyond anything the part of the movie that screamed comic book to me. Bullets with the words goodbye written on them are only found in comic books in my opinion.

If you love action, love guns, and love assassins this is the movie for you. With bullet time thrown in there it is one kick ass movie.