Off the wall

Rating: 3/10 (16 March 2016)

Nice to see that Wanted was given Oscar nominations in two categories related to sound. Well the film was certainly loud enough. But maybe the noise was to cover up the idea that the story was off the wall and unbelievable.
I can see in Wanted where the current cult TV hit Mr. Robot gets some of what is driving it. Our protagonist James McAvoy is a drone of a human being working almost like Jack Lemmon at his desk, taken advantage of by everyone senior to him as Lemmon was in The Apartment. He's even having woman troubles as his girlfriend is being completely faithless.
Well one morning he's the target of a shooting and saved by girl Rambo Angelina Jolie. Turns out that McAvoy is the son of a professional assassin and he's got it in his blood to be one as well. Dad deserted the family as a kid and that's the reason for all of McAvoy's issues.
Well McAvoy under the tutelage of Jolie and head Morgan Freeman our hero develops into a full blown Rambo type and joins the group of secret assassins that have been around for a thousand years. But of course this is hardly the end of the story. And what red blooded American male wouldn't want to get tutelage from Angelina Jolie?
You've got to love Morgan Freeman. That man can make the most pretentious drivel sound like it's from the Old Testament. And he does it in film after film which he's doing for a hefty paycheck between Oscar material like Boys Don't Cry. Well, we all have bills to pay.
Fans of mindless action films will love this.