Enjoyable Action Movie

Rating: 6/10 (27 August 2008)

If you want a thoughtful film with depth, WANTED is not your cup of tea. But it is an enjoyable movie to watch. It is a feel good movie and perfect choice for the ones who does not want a complicated storyline. The story is a simple one. The James McAvoy character is a low-grade accountant with a small office cubicle at a mediocre accounting firm with a boss from hell. His girlfriend is sleeping with his best friend. He has an all round lack of application. He rents a lowly apartment near a noisy railway line and he is the butt of jokes at the work place. The fact he does not know yet is his father is a hit-man from a secret group called Fraternity. He is approached and told that his father has been killed on the job and that he has rare talents for being a hit-man. He is then trained to become a hit-man with the ultimate aim of having him avenge his father's death. The training is atrocious includes being able to bend a bullet to hit your target, running on top of high speed trains. All main characters are doing their parts well. I especially like James McAvoy and Angelina Jolie. WANTED does not require a full acting ability but at least we know that all players do their part with much effort. WANTED invites you to suspend your brains for a while and release your imagination. If you can do that for about 120 minutes then its a guaranteed fun time. *** OUT OF *****