Movie: Wanted

Studio:	Universal Pictures
Release:	June 27, 2008
Genre:	Action/Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Thriller, Crime/Gangster and Adaptation
MPAA Rating:	R for strong bloody violence throughout, pervasive language and some sexuality.

My Yahoo! Movies Rating:

Overall Grade:	B-
Story:	C+
Acting	B
Direction:	B-
Visuals:	B+

Wesley lives a boring life. And the first few minutes of the movie is just as boring. They've actually overdone it that I was beginning to wonder if the rest of the movie would be just as bad.

Thank goodness the action picked up before I lost interest. The action in this movie is awesome. However, a lot of it are downright impossible, whether the scene uses CG or not. The implausibility therefore, makes it easy for the viewer to disengage from the movie.

The idea of a band of Assassins with a higher purpose sounds nice. I just wasn't sold on the idea that they get their orders from a loom. As Wesley himself put it ... how do you know that a person that is a stranger to you deserves to die?

If the idea of taking orders from a loom without question seems ridiculous enough, what's more ridiculous is having only one person in charge of interpreting the loom and giving the orders.

With something as important as taking human life, the Weavers should have instituted a standard procedure wherein one makes the interpretation, and another person audits it.

I have not read the graphic novel the movie was based on, which is perhaps the reason that I have more questions: How did the weavers of a thousand years ago prove that all names coming from the loom should be marked for death? Why is a thousand year old organization headquartered in the New World (USA)? Is the loom they are using the original one? How and when was it transported to the USA? How exactly do they recruit members?

Given the action scenes and the presence of Jolie, McAvoy and Freeman, this movie has the cool factor. It just falls short when it comes to the story.