It had all the pieces but they wanted to try something different and the film suffers for that

Rating: 3/10 (9 May 2010)

This is an example where if the makers tried to make the typical action film then this would have been quite good fun. A young guy finds out he is part of a league of assassins and tries to hunt down the man responsible for his fathers death. Had they made an action film about that then it would have been good but the director wanted to be different and the result is a poorly made film with unlikable characters.
I know that this is based off a graphic novel but there was a lot of potential here, for example the ability to curve bullets. The problem lies in that most of the action scenes involve the heroes fighting one enemy and that isn't interesting. This limits the action considerably and the final action scene is just bad. There is no tension since you don't care about anyone. If like your action films filled with unlikeable characters, lots of swearing, breaking the forth wall (that really annoyed me) and CGI, then you will like this film.
The visuals are really good though. There is a action scene with a train, which was the best thing about the film. Everything else just fell short. James McAvoy's character Wesley is really unlikeable from the start. You never like him once throughout the film and that will stop a lot of people from enjoying Wanted.
Rent this film if you are interested in seeing it or if you have read the graphic novel, otherwise unless you are interested if hearing the cool sound effects, you may want to miss this.