Review for Wanted
March 23rd 2010 09:30
Today continues our review of movies "Bad Men with Good Morals" theme. Next, is Wanted. I absolutely LOVE this movie! ( Wanted 2 will be released in 2011!) I think it has one of the coolest soundtracks ever! And although this movie stars someone (Angelina Jolie) who is getting to be extremely annoying in the public eye ALL the time, I am able to somewhat "suspend my disbelief" (actually to REALLY get into this movie, you have to "suspend your disbelief" for most of the scenes!) and forget that she is who she is in real life!
Anyway, this movie is about a young man named Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy, who does an excellent acting job from wimp to wow!) who works at a job that bores him to tears with a boss whose a jerk! He takes anti-depressants because he suffers from panic attacks. His live-in girlfriend is sleeping with his best friend, from work! Yeah, I'd say his life sucks! His father left him when he was only one week old and because he feels like such a loser now, he wonders if his dad saw the loser in him!
One night at a pharmacy, (while picking up his anti-depressant pills!) Gibson meets a mysterious woman who tells him his father was an elite assassin who had been killed the day before. (Of course, he thinks she is crazy!) Gibson replies that his father abandoned him a week after his birth. At that moment, a man appears, gun in hand. The woman opens fire. Gibson and the woman escape from the resulting shoot-out and have a wild car chase in the streets of Chicago. (awesome and incredible!) The woman brings Gibson to the headquarters of The Fraternity, a thousand-year-old secret society of assassins. The group's leader, Sloan (Morgan Freeman, who will first always be known for "The Electric Co. 1971-77
When his training is complete, Gibson is given orders to kill people from the Loom of Fate (what the hell is that?) a loom that gives the names of the targets through a binary code hidden in weaving errors of the fabric. (OOO K! Yeah, right! A loom that has the names of people to be killed? I told you, you had to believe some weird stuff!) While on his first assignment, Gibson has second thoughts and hesitates killing his target. In a flashback we learn that he told Fox it isn't right to kill people without knowing anything about them or why they deserve to die. (heart of gold!) Fox tells him a story of a little girl whose dad was set on fire as she was made to watch all because a Fraternity member didn't kill the man who set the dad on fire...It was HER dad and SHE was the little girl!
Clearly, just by being an assassin deems you a "bad man!" And look where they are getting their information from...a loom? Oh, yeah, that's accurate! But even as an assassin, Gibson had a hard time shooting people (deep inside he was still that sweet, wimpy office worker!) without knowing exactly what they did, it's like yesterday's review of "Scarface" what Tony said about not hurting someone unless they got it coming to them! This movie requires the watcher to accept some pretty unrealistic premises (and stunts!) but overall the cinematography and music (the trailer contains my favorite song!) are spectacular so...Who cares? Great movie!
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