A fun movie without logic to back it

Rating: 6/10 (22 January 2016)

Wanted had a lot going for it but lost track of that by trying to make a more action-packed matrix rip-off. The beginning of the movie is what captures the audience's attention by portraying the life of the main character that we can all relate to (unsatisfactory job, unsatisfactory relationship, and unsatisfactory life). Where the movie really goes wrong is failed logic, too many illogical assumptions that that audience has to buy into in order to follow the story-line. Some examples, there's no logical reason bullets can suddenly curve at the minds will. At least in the matrix there was a solid justification to anything out of the ordinary (i.e. the matrix wasn't the real world).
The ending, in my opinion, is a cheap shot... talking to the audience first-hand because they couldn't do it properly in the movie. If the message of movie can't be figured-out by the audience, yelling at them through the main character is only making it worse.
In conclusion, there were a lot of great sequences in this movie, and it's always fulfilling when you feel you can relate to the main character... but the absolute irrational physics-defying action- stuff just made me lose touch with the movie...