Wanted (2008)
Country: US/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 110m
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Cast: James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman, Terence Stamp, Thomas Kretschmann
Synopsis:
An office worker is recruited by a secret society of assassins to kill the man responsible for his father's death.
Review:
Comic book hokum with a miscast lead. The film opens with the most jaw-droppingly absurd sequence of gunplay and acrobatics imaginable, and then proceeds to mine the scenario of The Matrix for the setup involving its hapless, anonymous hero. It more or less proceeds in this vein, and will come as no surprise to those familiar with its director's filmography, though until you have seen the spectacular train wreck and its preamble involving a speeding car, you ain't seen nothing.
Country: US/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 110m
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Cast: James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman, Terence Stamp, Thomas Kretschmann
Synopsis:
An office worker is recruited by a secret society of assassins to kill the man responsible for his father's death.
Review:
Comic book hokum with a miscast lead. The film opens with the most jaw-droppingly absurd sequence of gunplay and acrobatics imaginable, and then proceeds to mine the scenario of The Matrix for the setup involving its hapless, anonymous hero. It more or less proceeds in this vein, and will come as no surprise to those familiar with its director's filmography, though until you have seen the spectacular train wreck and its preamble involving a speeding car, you ain't seen nothing.
Country: US/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 110m
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Cast: James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman, Terence Stamp, Thomas Kretschmann
Synopsis:
An office worker is recruited by a secret society of assassins to kill the man responsible for his father's death.
Review:
Comic book hokum with a miscast lead. The film opens with the most jaw-droppingly absurd sequence of gunplay and acrobatics imaginable, and then proceeds to mine the scenario of The Matrix for the setup involving its hapless, anonymous hero. It more or less proceeds in this vein, and will come as no surprise to those familiar with its director's filmography, though until you have seen the spectacular train wreck and its preamble involving a speeding car, you ain't seen nothing.