It's not you. It's me.

Rating: 4/10 (6 May 2013)

'Wanted' has an interesting enough premise: An Ancient group of weavers branches out into assassination, and a thousand years later a bored office clerk learns he is one of them.
The actors are competent. The moment Morgan Freeman walks onto the set the movie gets credibility, and Angelina Jolie is always a pleasure to watch.
Other reviewers have praised the over-the-top humor, but this is where 'Wanted' loses me. I liked some of the humor at the start and I can even accept the curved bullets, but I'm less keen about the Matrix-like stunts.
Where 'Wanted' really loses me though is the over-the-top silliness. It becomes so silly and so unreal I couldn't take it seriously. You lose the sense you're watching real people, and it feels like a video game. Cars and people do absurd stunts, and you quickly get a sense no one gets hurt unless the plot calls for it. And the people who do get hurt are jerks or unknowns, so no loss.
I'm intrigued at the 'Gritty Reboots' we are besieged with. 'Wanted' which is not the least bit gritty might explain this. We want a bit of reality in our movies, enough so we can say, well, maybe this *could* really happen? It's the difference between campy old Battlestar Galactica and the gritty reboot with James Edward Olmos.
The 'Wanted' source material is reportedly itself campy so I can't fault the producers on those grounds, but I want characters I can care about and root for. Some reviewers enjoyed 'Wanted', but it feels too much like a video game to me. It's a slick effort with good actors so I feel bad for giving it such a low score, but it couldn't hold my interest. A clever plot twist towards the end is pointless if the audience has already switched off or gone to sleep. 4/10.