Wanted(2008')s not Wanted(2004) and I hate HB

Rating: 7/10 (28 March 2011)

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Wanted('08) film lightly resembles Wanted('04) comic&fans of the 1st released book sound unimpressed with the film, it's casting&anything else based on a comic that's not another comic.
The graphic novel, a gritty favorite for it's medium, had dark character's, extreme violence&a wicked underworld revealed below the streets of our beloved earth where comicbook villains run a post superhero world. Something of a fun elseworlds universe idea with great references to your favorite comic heroes.
'08 seems like a pg13 spawn of '04's original plot because it kind of is. The little addressed reason WHY: movie&comic writers took the original "Assassin Fraternity" concept, then went their medium's way. A fun idea with 2 great products! The film written of course with the movie rating system in mind while the comic was free to go anywhere with this concept, which it did! Artists drew the lead female psycho, the Fox, from Halle Barry's Swordfish('01) likeness in orange Fox Ears. Marshal Mather's face was used as the source for the lead protagonist Wesley Gibbons, because the artist FELT like it. So if '08 was actually a faithful "Comicbook Movie," which it's not, '04 fans would only be satisfied by a NC17 rating, plus EMIN3M(playing a non rapper)&the artists wooden still life for the Fox, HB.
In '04 the Fox teaches Wes to just murder for fun. In '08 Fox trains Wes as a professional assassin, with no killing people he hates&raping an A-list celebrity, as Wesley did in the GRAPHIC Novel.
The Fox's film face is Hollywood's flesh&hot blooded demi goddess Angelina Jolie. A bony post-children physique makes it not her BEST SEXY YET, but she's the one actor to play any femme fatale with a unique perfection, AND it Saves us a re-drawn character reprized by the awful HB.
Though THIS incarnation of the purest spicy honey&bodily temptation from the same piece that brought us Lara Croft on screen has little substance, the tattooed beaut nails the film role of the Fox! Far better than HB nailing it to a cross! From failing Storm & Catwoman to making the dullest Bond girl, she needs to stop being called a 'strong female lead' and do silent body double jobs, not complain "Good Female Roles Are Hard To Come By." SO DON'T RUIN THE ∞ ROLES YOU'VE BEEN BLESSED WITH!
'08's street clothed heroine comes off a bit more HB than we'd like to play the cold killer. Better than Foxy of comedy central's "DRAWN TOGETHER" doing an 'obnoxious black lady' impression for 110min. No sequel yet due to the actor's lack of interest in the roles complexity. Something a REAL actor would halt the filming of "Most Wanted" for.
A common comics2film forum complaint: HB not cast! Now imagine if that's the sequel, which is an actual complaint forum idea. Helps appreciate WANTED's casting because HB is a terrible actor known for nudity in her early 'rise to fame' roles. An effective gimmick, but not talent, which is why her IMAGE was used in the comic. Stupid movie review article headlines have said HB's good for strong, respectable black woman roles, but notice she's not cast before Jolie for roles of her own likeness.
Of course Eminem wasn't cast as Mr. Gibbons, that's ridiculous! Instead, a distinguished professional actor, James McAvoy, gives us the awkward and apologetic Wesley the loser Gibbons. This gives the film a filmy kinda feel, like a film should have! This making it the theatrical presentation of the Assassin Fraternity idea. Complain about M&M and Hell Baring for lack of interest in the roles instead.
Most of the book's villains aren't even replaced by assassins and their many actor likenesses aren't played by those people, BECAUSE IT's NOT A RETELLING. A fresher idea indeed! running the comic way with the comic and film4film not based off each other at all. That's the answer to the lame complaint "movie not like the book!" (mostly because a movie's a movie and a bo....)
Other characters and actors not included are any superheroes(maybe replaced by targets if you want to prick about it) or the many actors the characters were drawn to the likeness of(rephrased for sticklers, replaced by BETTER actors!) Get it! One's drawn on a page, the other's movie images with a story that fits into 110 minutes. Holy Top Cow! It's such an old, worn, obnoxious and weak assed complaint that "the book was better!" It's always made by the same idiots who'd wine on about the old (anything) being the untouchable, then going on about how it's the untouchable(when complaining about why this new thing shouldn't exist. In THIS case, they're not even retelling's or translations(directly) of the other. It's an idea being expanded and told the way that type of story telling goes(or is felt it HAS to go.) Even for Kick-Ass, the book can include a longer story with more details and ideas expressed while film can use it's possible techniques to express details. Regardless, '04's a decent product of comics, '08's a cool film.
Any film CONs? Again, maybe the physique. A worn, thin frame from adding kids to her life since last sexy bodied flick left Mrs.Pitt with scrawny arms&the film with an unneeded partial hind shot, which asks "why do that?" as it was actually a DOUBLE!
Why not a ridiculously rewarding back, instead of ridiculously accurate! She didn't do it herself because she looked frail, so why only upgrade to scrawny, giving us the same back-shots. It seems movie magic could cure this, but still, her abilities as an actor make up for it compared to using a no talent "STAR."
So if you want Mark Millar's Fox on screen, watch Swordfish or download the WANTED comic.