Wanted

I didn't get a chance to see Wanted when it came out this summer. Mainly due to the fact that I was spending most of my money on multiple views of The Dark Knight. I had never read the comic that the movie is based on even though I am a fan of Mark Millar. His run on Spider-Man was amazing, spectacular, and sensational. Civil War got me excited about the Marvel Universe, plus Captain America was a total BAMF in that story. So I guess you could say that I wanted to see this. Yeah I know, that one even hurt me. Deal with it.

It arrived in my netflix today after a very long waiting time. Wanted is about a group of assassins that formed 1,000 years ago called The Fraternity. They receive assignments through hidden codes inside tapestries. Binary code mind you. Targets are decided by fate, therefore the assassins do not question whether this person deserves to live or die. Wesley, an accountant, is recruited in to The Fraternity when his estranged father, who was also a Fraternity member, is apparently killed by a rogue assassin. Wesley is then trained to become the perfect assassin and take out his father's killer. Wackiness and hi jinks ensue.

I am going to give this movie a sandwich review. For those that are unfamiliar with the term it is when you start and end with a positive but the middle is negative.

Positive: The special fx were awesome! Everything from the car flips and chases to the bullets curving and smashing in to each other. It felt very Matrixie, but at the same time unique enough to be its own thing.

Negative: What the piss? Was this seriously based on something Mark Millar wrote? Good gravy this was awful! The main character, Wesley, not only embraces his father's profession, but passionately wants to avenge his death. This is for a man that he hasn't seen since he was seven days old! Not only that, but in a span of six weeks Wesley is trained to be one of the top assassins. Really? It only takes six weeks? I'm going to school for communications right now. I'm told the total time until I receive my B.A. is roughly four years. I guess if I took a specific vocation such as assassination, I could be on my way to a high paying career in as little as six weeks. My favorite part of the movie was when Wesley was chasing his father's killer on a crowded train only for the train to derail as it is going over a bridge. Here's where it gets tricky. Train cars are falling down the canyon and apparently all the passengers escaped somehow. I came to this conclusion because no one was in any of the cars except Wesley, the killer, and Angelina Jolie! Ridiculous! There were some twists and turns that happened, but I won't spoil that here. I honestly don't think I would even pick this up on Free Comic Book Day.

Positive: uh....let's see....I already mentioned the special fx....um...Angelina Jolie is nice to look at.