"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" meets "Fight Club" by way of "The Matrix" ; packs a whallop!

Rating: 9/10 (30 June 2008)

WANTED (2008) ***1/2 James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman, Terence Stamp, Thomas Kretschmann, Common,Kristen Hager, Marc Warren, David O'Hara, Konstantin Khabensky, Dato Bakhtadze, Chris Pratt, Lorna Scott. Over-the-top and fantastically violent adaptation of Mark Millar & J.G. Jones' graphic novels about a guild of assassins who recruit an office drone (McAvoy in his breakthrough main-stream film certain to make him a household name and a Hollywood player) whose dead-end life gets a swift kick in the pants and a new lease on his true purpose: to be an ice-blood-in-his-veins killing machine. Truly jaw-dropping amazing visual effects not seen since "The Matrix" have made audiences sit-up in their seats (and on the edge of their seats), punishingly bloody violence permeating throughout with some dazzling set-pieces and the rail-thin embodiment of cinematic sexiness in Jolie as the heavily tattooed star of the organization providing some real sizzle. Packs a whallop. Directed with gusto by Timur Bekmambetov.