Wanted

Rating: 4/10 (10 September 2008)

Much hype, Russian director, superb star cast, action movie, big scale, great stunts  that is what I saw in the trailers; added to that a few friends who saw the movie  recommended it as a very good movie. So here, I go to see the movie.
Wesley (James McAvoy) is an accountant  bullied, worried and bankrupt. In a supermarket shootout action  Wesley knows through Fox (Angelina Jolie) and Sloan (Morgan Freeman) that he is the son of an assassin. Soon he gets involved in being rigorously trained by this assassination cult. His missions are to kill bad people. In one mission, his target becomes his own father, and that is the time  Wesley realizes the real story behind everything happening to him. I won't give spoilers here  but Wesley in the end, does take his father's place by eliminating all the bad guys.
This movie is a collassal waste of money, with senseless action sense and a story that only naïve person can write. One has to keep our brains out while watching the movie.
The Russian director Timur Bekmambetov  Hollywood outing does not fetch him any great points and he has to wait for another good story and movie to showcase his talent. Surely his talent is shown in mega-scale actions and mystical suspense  but that does not bite the audience taste.
James McAvoy, a good actor  does everything that his director asks him to do  but the movie is not a Matrix to fire anything for him. Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman  are those stars who would fetch the director some good audiences, but nothing sustains in the end.
The actions are high speed and out of the world  whatever one can imagine one can find here. Believe in the instinct and one can curve the path of bullet while shooting  that is the type of stuff they show.
For very hard core actions friends  who just want fun, this is their outing.
(Stars 4.25 out of 10)