Wanted... a plot? Dialogue? Action? Okay, it has action.

Wanted... a plot? Dialogue? Action? Okay, it has action.

Written by craig coffman

I just saw the movie Wanted and I left only wanting my money back. What a waste of time. The special effects were top notch, but everything after that was thin to non-existant. I do not go to action movies with high hopes for story line cohesion, but this was just horrible. I wish the voice track could have been muted, but let the SFX rumble. That would have been awesome.

Instead what you get is close to 2 hours of WTF “story.” The movie is so poorly written that I felt sorry for the actors (who do quite well with what they have), but then the writer tries to make you feel like you could not keep up or guess the next amazing and not completely lame twist. “Wait... Jolie was the little girl we see in flashback watching her father be killed by a ruthless assassin? I totally missed that! Good thing we got a close up on her neck showing where the killer marked her, ’cuz I was thinking ‘Who could that girl be? No way it is Jolie.’ ”

Then, in the end, the main character looks in the camera after telling us how bad-ass he is for becoming a trained killer and mocks us. “What the fuck have you done with your life?“ or something close to that. Hm? Good point. I am 37 years old and I have not even killed anyone. I should leave my dead-end job, be recruited by a secret society of the best assassins in history and learn (in something less than a month) how to take out their top “rogue” agent. (I won’t tell you who that is, but man is it hard to guess.)

In the end, I was not as totally let down as this review might sound. The action was all out when they let it happen. You get to see Jolie’s butt. Bring your music player of choice with your own best action movie soundtrack and listen to that while watching the film. You won’t miss anything, and you might like it better.