A put upon accountant finds out he is the son of the world's greatest assassin. He is trained by a mysterious organization of killers to become an assassin in this very crappy film.
Wanted is based on a comic book by extreme hack Mark Miller author of Kick-Ass, Superman: Red Son, Robo Hunter and Maniac 5 among lots of other stuff. Of course they couldn't use Miller's original plot since it involved a secret society of killers eliminating all the super heroes in the world and hypnotizing the entire population of the planet to forget there ever were super heroes, how stupid can you get.
The director was Timur Bekmambetov, thank god for cut and past on that name. The spastic action scenes are reminiscent of his Russian fantasy films Night Watch and Day Watch with over the top action effects scenes that are computer enhanced to a point that goes beyond extreme incoherence.
The acting is probably not worth commenting on. The ridiculously thin Angelina Jolie is supposed to be a big time assassin and it looks like she can barely hold her big gun in her hands. James McAvoy is the real star of the film and probably does as well as he can with the silly role of the assassin in training accountant.
No Sale on this one.
110 minutes.
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