Wanted=Best movie of the summer so far.
I was really impressed on many different levels with this movie. Right from the get go with Nine Inch Nails playing in the background, which made perfect sense, got me hooked in. Everyday is Exactly the Same gave you the feeling of the dismal lifestyle that the main character, played by James McAvoy, had to deal with. From the get go, the action starts and never stops. Angelina Jolie steals the show with her beauty and relentless style to take action to that whole other level only a few people can. People were giving this movie bad reviews based on the reality of the whole thing, but this is a damn movie, not reality. Things are allowed to be different and they were. The concept couldn't have been a better one. I am tired of these boring action flicks with big explosions and typical car chases that make you think that the human population is just so dumb they can easily be fooled with another one.
Wanted takes the cake and the buffet too in the creative aspect of this film. When Fox, played by Jolie, slides 720 into McAvoy with the door open in a Dodge Viper doing 35 mphs to pick him up, there I was ready to applaud and walk out happily at that point. Finally a creative way to start a car chase. The effects and storyline were truly something different and didn't look cheesy at all. When McAvoy breaks through to become the person he is, there was a little part of me wishing that I could some how do the same thing, that is if I had the same boring life he did.
With the beat downs coming along to build character and train McAvoy it stepped up to a whole other knoch. I don't want to give away too much more but the movie is something that I will definitely see again. I realized how good Wanted was soon after I saw it. I tried to go see Wall-E right away but had to wait about 20 minutes before it started. I snuck into the Hulk and sat down for about 5 minutes and was like wow this really is an awful movie with horrible effects and computer graphics that Pixar could've done in 1990. Before that I thought it was an ok movie meaning about 5 out of 10 only because I felt a little a sympathy for Edward Norton. That is beside the whole point though, Wanted was great. The storyline takes you all around the town and back up the block. Unstoppable action that I feel is groundbreaking except for the part were bullets collide in mid-air like 4 times in a row, no need for all that now. Jolie steals the stage but McAvoy puts on a damn good show for the ladies as well. With the moral of the story, trying to change the world, and the last line were McAvoy says, "What have you done lately?" That was probably as good as the Eye of the Tiger playing after Rocky first came out. That's how pumped you got after that line and the twisted ending. This movie is worth every penny. 9 out of 10, and I would love to see it again in that special quick fix wax bath. I give it a 9 only because to be perfect now days you gotta be perfect, and I believe I may have to save that 10 out of 10 for Batman.
