Wanted [Blu-ray]

This wonderful gem--based on a comic book of the same name--features Wesley Gibson, a mild-mannered accountant working at a big firm, who is stifled in every area of his life. Work, girlfriend, money--everything frustrates him...but he can't seem to muster up the courage to speak up for himself. Plus, he has to fight constant migraines, which he takes medication for and assumes are due to his frustrating life. But he's about to find out that there's a lot more to him than he ever could have imagined. Featuring James McAvoy (who, prior to this was mostly known for playing Paul Bettany's brother in Wimbledon and Mr. Tumnus in the first Chronicles of Narnia), who is still far away from being Professor X at this point, this movie also has Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie in key roles (and even features a young Chris Pratt, as Wesley's office mate and cheating lover of Wesley's girlfriend). Wesley is approached out of the blue by Fox (Jolie), who tells him that his headaches aren't migraines--that in fact, they're due to his heart beating more than 200 times per minute because he's the son of a specialized assassin. Wesley thinks she's nuts...until he gets caught in the middle of an insane firefight between Fox and a mysterious man who seems to be hunting him. Wesley is eventually introduced to The Fraternity, a league of assassins that Fox is a member of, and which is led by a man named Sloan (Freeman). He finds out that these unique people have all sorts of crazy skills that no one else has, and that using a Loom Of Fate, which produces cloth that somehow determines who Fate wants to be eliminated, they have been the agents who eliminate problems for 1,000 years. Wesley is told that the mysterious man Fox had the gun battle with is a rogue member of this Fraternity who killed his father and is trying to eliminate the other members, and that Wesley is the only one who can follow in his father's footsteps and track him down. But first, he has to learn from the other Fraternity members how to do close-quarter combat, knife fighting, reduce his reactions to pain, shoot, and most incredibly of all, bend bullets in flight with his mind. Through it all, Wesley starts to become a stronger person, more willing to speak up on his own behalf, and become a cool, confident man like his father was. He is eventually sent on kill missions, where the amazing talents of himself and Fox are put on wonderful display. Eventually, he is faced with Cross (Thomas Kretschmann), the rogue assassin...and a hugs twist in the narrative that will leave him reeling and wondering just who is who. Featuring a lot of Matrix-style action and gun play, this movie will keep you thoroughly entertained throughout.

Amazing movie. Definitely worth having on disc. No issues with the disc itself either.

This is a great addition to any " Comic book based movie" collection. This action movie introduces the most unlikely hero to ever come out of a comic book! Full of action & plot twists you find yourself rooting for a Anti-hero who transforms from a man who has excepted a basically humiliating life mistaking his super powers for anxiety attacks & trudging day to day relying on socially excepted drugs to suppress his desire to change his life. Suddenly he finds himself hunted by a assassin, rescued by a mysterious beauty & forced to realize his true potential...not wanting to give out to many spoilers I will just say this is the point where the Rollercoaster ride goes' beyond stopping & the action becomes relentless! Danny Elfman is well known for his great movie scores from " Batman" to " A Nightmare before Christmas" & many more including this movie. What really blew my mind is the song " The Little Things" it was not just a good rock & roll song added in this movie but a song created & performed by Danny Elfman himself for this movie with the exception of the vocals. I think the song is good enough to have made the top 50 had it been released as a single. Instead it is only available by purchasing the soundtrack for " Wanted". D.C. really got the comic books turned to movies rolling in the late 70's with the " Superman" franchise & continued to dominate with the " Batman" franchise...now Marvel has taken the lead but with the revised " Darker Batman & Superman" movies along with " The Suicide Squad" it looks like D.C. is gaining speed again. But check out some of the great underground & smaller comic books turned into movies like " Wanted". There is a lot more fun escapist fantasy out there & it doesn't have to come from Marvel or D.C. !!!

4 of 5 stars to this crazy action movie. Combine Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie and you have a powerful combination. When this movie first starts it starts slowly and seems like a dumb movie about a nerd kid. In fact, I almost turned it off. What's cool is that minute by minute this movie gets better and better. By the end, you have a powerful action movie with solid characters. At first it jumps around a bit with the kid having dreams and some visual experiences that you don't know if they're true or not. The story is about the son of a secret agent who gets recruited into the agency (The Fraternity). Thru the whole movie, you have to suspend your thinking as things border on fantasy rather than reality (e.g. kid gets shot, they put him into a stone bathtub with fluid that repairs him; or you can make a bullet go around solid objects by putting "spin" into the bullet). Anyway, they train him and set him into the field as an assassin. Oh, did I mention the truck load of rat bombs? Well, they're part of the big ending... A good movie, alot of fun though a bit "fantastic". Good action and some nice special effects. I understand this was originated from a comic book which might explain the "fantastic" actions. Worth watching this!

Very good movie

Liked to watch every couple months.

"Wanted" is indeed an action-packed movie paced at lightening speed. My first impression was that this was like a comic book come to life, and then saw in the credits that it was actually based on a comic book series. It certainly captures that feel. The story is very well related in other reviews. Young man drifting without goals and passion, gets swept into a fraternity of assassins formed a 1000 years ago. Descended from weavers, a loom allegedly in a secret digital code, picks the names of people these trained assassins are to kill. The young man is told he is being trained to kill the man who killed his father, also a member of the fraternity. But, is he? Obviously a lot of violence, killings, car chases and the usual gallons of spilled blood. Not for the faint of heart, but enjoyable for the legions of Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman fans.

Wanted defines the term "over-the-top". This film has some of the most ridiculous action scenes and far-fetched gunfights I've seen since The Matrix in 1999. You've got two amazing and original car chases, lots of intense and downright awesome shootouts, an engagingly deep story, and quite a few interesting characters. The actors all do a great job, especially James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman. Angelina Jolie was just there to look good and didn't do much. I highly recommend seeing this film, even if it's just for the action scenes. And if you like the film, also check out the video game: Wanted: Weapons of Fate . It captures the feel of the film perfectly and is really fun to play. From a collector's edition standpoint, this set is very well done. It comes with some really great special features and collector's items, such as the acrylic film cell and the lobby cards. Everything comes packaged in a solid case lined with some fancy fabric, which is house by a thick plastic sleeve with a bullet lodged in it. My only complaint is the storage of the discs. They attach to a cardboard shooting range target and just sit in the case. The discs will not get damaged or anything, it just feels awkward when removing it from the case. They should have just included a standard case to store the discs in. Other than that, the set is great and definitely worth picking up.

Un bon film de science fiction à voir une fois sans plus.

Many action movies, comic books and geek-appeal TV shows are fantasies of empowerment. Protagonists from Luke Skywalker through Peter Parker and Harry Potter are mistaken for dullards by everyone in their lives. They are whisked out of their ruts by magical mentors, who induct them into secret universes where they inherit a legacy of heroism (along with an arch-enemy or two), can take their pick of the cool toys (mostly fast vehicles and big weapons) and get to marry (or at least cop-off with) the princess or prince of their choice. Wanted fits that template treading a tricky path between `with great power comes great responsibility' and `absolute power corrupts absolutely'. Here, a whiny loser gets access to sports cars, guns that shoot round corners and a tattooed Angelina Jolie, and takes his place in a battle between good and evil without necessarily caring about the body count. Our hero, Wesley (James McAvoy), endures arduous training which brings out his latent near-superhuman abilities, and executes his first missions. The director, Timur Bekmambetov, obviously has a lot of fun with a sizable budget, we get fights, chases, crashes, murders and assaults involving flipped-over sports cars, speeding trains, skyscrapers, and a castle. Bekmambetov understands pacing and escalation, scenes build in intensity, and each sequence is filled with inventive gags or gimmicks, like the broken letters that spell out a to the point resignation message when Wesley breaks his keyboard on the face of the best friend who is sleeping with his girlfriend. A great thing about Wanted is it doesn't seem interested in trying to appeal to the masses by getting a 12A certificate, so it can deliver the gruesome payoffs to its fights. McAvoy, boyish charming and occasionally scary, carries off a tricky role, growing the hero's character to match his bullet-curving and knife-fighting skills, and proves he can hold his own on the big screen. A slender Angelina Jolie is insidiously attractive as the world's greatest (and, apparently, most limber) hit lady: I have never seen her more charismatic on screen - or bent into such odd positions. In a time where even the good action films have been predictable, Wanted offers more than enough twists, turns and surprises to fool viewers who think they know what's going to happen. Wanted is fun, funny and packed with more action than you can shake an AK-47 at. Recommended.

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What’s not to love about this movie” the action is great, the movie tells you not to take it seriously, if you do, your brain will not comprehend why you couldn’t like it, so the next time you see all the bad news on T.V. pop this in player, and if your brain can’t do the rest, can’t help Ya. now I’m going to go watch “the Avengers” and see a man turn into a green Monster, another guy wear a iron suite, with a Battery life of a life-time, (no wonder my flash-light don’t work) and yet another, who wears red white and blue,with a shield no doubt, that he never seems to use, to protect him from the sun, traveling that close you could get burn, I could go on, but no. Runtime 110 Min. English DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio. 2.35:1 Widescreen. I Love The Movie. The BD-Live is Awesome.