The Epitome of Everything That Is Wrong About Hollywood

Rating: 1/10 (1 July 2008)

This film has got it all!! It starts with the brain-dead script, of course borrowed from a comic-book practically nobody has ever heard of! Then you go all the way to Russia to hire a commercials director who thinks empty visuals somehow amounts to directing and who would not know how to tell a story visually if his life depended on it... As if there weren't plenty of those stateside! Then you hire a star with a spotty commercial track record (did you know Angelina Jolie has been lining up the box-office bomb regularly throughout her career - Sky Captain anyone?) who has given up on even trying to act and partner her up with the latest "British discovery" who turns out to be a poor actor with no discernible charisma (ala Colin Farrell but even blander).
Stir the pot, add a humongous ad campaign to fool as many people as possible into seeing this turkey on opening day and you've got Wanted.
Think about the great movie that could have been made with all that money!