Did you really pay to see it?

Rating: 5/10 (7 August 2008)

I just saw Wanted, and I must say, "What an awful movie!" The reasons are obvious, maybe the director wanted us to learn to shoot bullets in curved paths, or maybe he wanted to get closer to making something legendary such as The Matrix, but this movie was really bad. With hardly a plot in the first place, the movie cannot even be called action-oriented, leave alone character development in the movie. The acting was nothing over-the-top, the action sequences were repetitive, and the movie was quite boring. There has been no explanation as to who the person who was killed on the rooftop in the starting scene was, the Fate(what a dumb name) is not even described, we are not even told how it selects its name, and if a loom of thread is so intelligent, then how come it gave out the names of the assassins who were supposed to die, and still kept giving out names, knowing that the only people who followed its orders were going to be killed by it. There is no telling as to how many assassinations Wesley's father did, or any other person as a matter-of-fact did... Moreover, when he read about his so-called father's assassinations(after his visit from the Fate's room), all I can see in the movie is still a bullet-bending technique. The origin of The Fraternity is hardly explained, with no discussion on its principles or teachings. Wesley's father couldn't shout aloud that he was his father(of all the times he saw his son), before his own son planted a bullet into his chest, The Fraternity members went blind and couldn't see the bullet Jolie(Fox) fired to kill them all, and instead of getting divided, all the mice went into the building(not even one of them stayed back). Nobody should complain that bullet bending is wrong, as the movie takes off on a hypothetical note, but maybe the origin, the meaning, or the consequences of some of the things should have been explained. The guy just realized that he had to do something(i.e. train harder, and kill his dad's murderer), without even something meaningful said before it the scene to make him understand it, whole boring scenes about making the protagonist learn knife fighting when all the meaning of it was that he just had to defeat the guy who taught him without doing anything special(he didn't use knives even once in the whole movie). Even the comedy was rotten at places, with the least funny dialogs pouring from all the directions. All that I can say is that if you are a die-hard action movie fan, and if watching movies which don't exactly focus on the acting, or the dialogs, or the character or the plot development doesn't actually pi** you off, then you better go and buy the DVD, and if you are not that type, well... You know better than this...