Edgelord crap

Rating: 3/10 (29 March 2020)

Wanted from 2008 is in name only adaption of Mark Millar's graphic novel of the same name. The source material was basically Watchmen only instead focusing on super-villains. It is atypical overkill from Mark Millar and is probably as every bit as terrible as I have been led to believe. I haven't actually read it.
Wanted da movie instead replaced a fraternity of super-villains with a fraternity of assassins with superpowers, it's sounds even more stupid now as i say it. This was most likely to capitalise upon the hit-man trend action films inexplicably found themselves in at the time. Square peg, round hole, crap film.
Wanted riffs on fight club quite a bit, which i appreciated deeply as the wetboy incel of a protagonist made the first fifteen minutes of this film near unwatchable, and things did not improve much from then. I was very much expecting James Mcavoy to be quoting lines from Camp of the spirits directly to the camera until thankfully, like a car crash colliding with a train wreck, action scenes with ultra special physics made their way onto the screen. Not even the presence of Angelina Jolie could distract from the fact that I was too old for this.
As I have never read the graphic novel, I do not know where Mark Millar's childhood stroking begins and the triforce screenwriting team's exquisite corpse ends. What i can tell you though is that with a combination of inane dialogue, one dimensional characters and some truly insulting plot twists, Wanted is indeed one of the worst written blockbusters of the 2000's.
The best and most iconic element is it's direction. It's inventive, but completely wasted upon a terrible script.
If i wanted to turn off my brain, i would shoot myself in the head. If I wanted to waste two hours of my life again, I would watch Wanted. If i wanted to give y'all some good advice, i'd recommend staying away from this edge-lord blockbuster turd.