Put it on your most wanted list.

Rating: 8/10 (8 July 2008)

Leave your brains at the door, you won't be needing them. Though that isn't necessarily a bad thing. For thoses tired of blockbusters pretending to be otherwise (Prince Caspian, Grindhouse) Wanted is a true breath of fresh air. A action film that knows it's an action film, and doesn't pretend to be anything more or anything less. Though a great cast and a tired but still superb plot help. But as far as action goes this is some of the most fluent and nail biting action I've seen since The Matrix all the way back in 1999.
It's unlikely action hero James McAvoy who shines brighter than anybody else, though slightly irritating at the start of the movie one his kick-ass side develops he is every iota the James Bourne beta we were looking for. Though credit must go to the suburb Morgan Freeman and the shimmering Angelina Jolie who both sweep away the competition as some of the greatest action movie characters to date. Though Wanted may lack the smarts of Casino Royal of The Bourne Identity, it very easily Makes up for all of that which is lost simply because of its outstanding action sequences. Wanted is never dull and never boring and only ever silly, but who really cares about that? Night Watch director Timur Bekmambetov helms his first English-language feature film with this big-screen adaptation of Mark Millar's action-packed graphic novel. Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) is a cube-dwelling hypochondriac whose uneventful life has become a mundane blur of terminal boredom. Repeatedly humiliated by his boss and constantly cuckolded by his cheating girlfriend, weakling Wes seems to be living right down to everyone's expectations that he would never amount to anything in life. However, upon discovering that the father he never knew has been brutally murdered, the spineless, clock-punching pushover is recruited into a secret society of assassins known as the Fraternity.
During the course of his training, the man who was once an office-bound wimp develops lightning-fast reflexes and superhuman dexterity courtesy of his skilled mentor Fox (Angelina Jolie). Upon completing his training, Wes is assigned the task of dealing out death to the mythological Fates, who possess the ability to alter the lifelines of mortal men.
Jolie is all wolf, kohl-eyed and coldblooded. But for all her lethal skills (and drop-dead physique), there's something approachable about her. She plays Fox with a hint of sardonic remove and a touch of down-to-earth grit, as if this pumped-up killing machine hasn't forgotten what it's like to be one of the girls. She puts her cat suit on one leg at a time.
All in all I thoroughly enjoyed Wanted and it ranking just behind Cloverfield as one of the greatest action flick of 2008. With only minor stumbles Wanted glides through its fluent action sequences with no problem what so ever. Though non-of us like that part where Morgan Freeman swears. He's too nice for sh*t like that.