Wanted

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Wanted
Directed: Timbor Bekmambetov
Starring: James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman, Thomas Kretschmann, Common
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Synopsis: A guy is recruited into an assassin organization because of his similar talents that his father had, such as shooting the wings off flies and curving bullets.

The movie starts out almost like Office Space where a guy hates his job, his boss, his work, his girlfriend and his life. He just went through the motions of the days, but not actually enjoying life. Then it veers in a completely different direction since while he is refilling his mind-numbing prescription, he is almost killed, but saved by Angelina Jolie. He is pulled into an assassination organization where he must be trained to be like his recently killed father to assassinate people. They get the names of people from a Loom of Destiny, which is the major part of the movie sounds straight from some comic book lore. The movie comes from a comic book, but the rest of it is pretty standard action thriller except for how they receive the names of who to kill.

The fun part of the movie is all the action from the training and fighting. It is very much like the next step after The Matrix in terms of special effects and direction. I could have done without the actual main plot and ending of the movie. It was pretty stupid, but I chose to ignore it and just have fun with the action.

Rating: B-

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