Summer Movie Review 2008 # 6: Wanted

First of all, I had to admit I had a hard time getting the director’s name since it is so hard to spell. Timur Bekmambetov. There, I’ll just mention him once. This is the director’s first American movie and based on his last projects (Day Watch and Night Watch), this surely is an action combined with a unique style of directing. In Wanted, James McAvoy plays Wesley Gibson, an average guy looking for more exciting things to do in life – until he is approached by Fox (Angelina Jolie) who tells him that his has a blood of an assassin and asks him to join them in pursuing the guy that killed his father. Sloan (Morgan Freeman) is the one who gives their assignments, which is given by the ‘Loom of Faith’. Superb action scenes with a touch of humor make this one of my favorite films of the year. Every shot was great and though the plot was somewhat predictable, I still enjoyed the film and actually went on to watch it over and over again. Kudos to Angelina Jolie, who looks sexier doing action films which was her benchmark for films when she started. Wanted: 8.5/10