Forget about the real world for a while when you watch this movie. We all know that it is impossible for bullets to curve. Even Beckham can’t bend it that way. Wanted lets us forget about physics for a while and brings you to a world where assassins answer to a higher being.
This adaptation of Mike Millar’s graphic novel is full of action sequences that could have been part of the Matrix trilogy. James McAvoy plays Wesley Gibson, the son of an Assassin. He is asked to take over his father’s job. Wesley’s Trinity is the hot and deadly Fox, played by Angelina Jolie. Then we have Morgan Freeman in the Morpheus-like role of Sloan.
Not that I want to take anything away from Wanted. The story is original. Kudos goes to the writers and the director. The effects were believable, from the fight scenes, to the bending of the bullets and even the exploding rats.
Sloan (Morgan Freeman): It a choice, Wesley, that each of us must face: to remain ordinary, pathetic, beat-down, coasting through a miserable existence, like sheep herded by fate – or you can take control of your own destiny and join us, releasing the caged wolf you have inside. Our purpose is to maintain stability in an unstable world – kill one, save a thousand. Within the fabric of this world, every life hangs by a thread. We are that thread – a fraternity of assassins with the weapons of fate. This is the decision that lies before you now: the sheep, or the wolf. The choice is yours.
Yup the decision is yours, whether you like this movie or not.
*Spoiler*
Turn out the rogue assassin that Wesley is chasing after is his real father and Sloan has lied to him. Turns out that Sloan’s name came out of the loom and Wesley’s father knew about it. Fox killed everyone with a single bullet. In the last scene, Wesley kills Sloan with a sniper rifle, much like how his father killed the first member of the Fraternity in the beginning of the movie.
