Wanted... to be a better movie.

Rating: 6/10 (17 April 2010)

This film is a hodgepodge of better films. It borrows many of the effects The Matrix pioneered. Some scenes look like they were adapted from tossed Matrix storyboards. It borrowed the existential themes from Fight Club about a lost working drone of Generation X trying to find strength and meaning in his depressing life. It took several other plot points and ideas from other films but I don't want to spoil anything. I'm not saying you can't recycle old ideas but stealing them without paying the necessary homage is very uncreative and uncool.
Wanted was packed to the brim with clichés in the dialogue, the plot, the characters, the sometimes 'Guy Richie-esquire' cinematography...and well just everything. I can just see how the details of this film were hammered out. "What would The Matrix look like if they could curve bullets?!?"
Well, now we know. I recommend wanted to anyone who hasn't seen Fight Club or The Matrix. I unfortunately couldn't enjoy it when I'd already seen the ideas done better in 1999.
What? They're making a wanted 2? Son of a...