ZebraspotsWANTED. a movie review. -spoiler-
January 14th 2009 23:57
Wanted.
A real action movie-- that's what one crosses their fingers for when they start a movie these days. The commercials have had quite a tendency to include every -second- of action in those two minutes and that's where it ends. Thankfully, that is not the case for this movie.
The movie sure starts out with some interesting scenes that kind of dabble a bit in the waters of ''Fight Club'' and we're not exactly positive that the main character isn't just as crazy as Edward Norton in that flick.
The movie has an artistic way of portraying the main character [played by James McAvoy] Wesley Gibson's anxiety-- rather a heart condition that is triggered by moments of anxiety. Director Timur Bekmambetov had an innovative vision for shooting his panic attack moments, and cramming a good portion of action into those alone.
Although i was rather bemused at those opening scenes, i sat down to this movie for a reason, Angelina Jolie and guns. It doesn't take long for the Wesley to be thrown into a life that was both desperate to find him, and to elude him.
DESPERATE TO FIND him
because that's what this secret society of assassins wants: Him in it to take out their main nemesis, so to speak. They know of the potential this guy harbors because they've seen what his father is capable of. and they want him.
DESPERATE TO ELUDE him
because it is a life his father chose not to pass on to his son. this same father that abandoned him at birth did it not because he's a drunk or a druggie, but because he is an assassin in one of the most exclusive societies in the world and staying around would only mean death to the ones he loved. unfortunately much to his efforts, they found him anyways.
when i say they i mean the society of assassins, and when i say unfortunately, i'm referring to the fact that although they stumble across his son and sing praise of his father, they falsify his father's legacy in saying that his father was slain just recently by the hands of their particular ''nemesis'' , and no one can finish the job and seek redemption but his boy. So after they feed him this bed of lies, and train his dormant talent, they set him loose on his father.
THE SKULLS?
Nope, this society of assassins, shares a particular talent, curving bullets. A very interesting thing to let your mind run away on, not physically pheasable though. This ''team'' has a particular way of being able to turn their anxiety and ability to have their heart ''over-beat'' into a way of being able to make moves and plan moves at incredible speeds, beyond typical human abilities.
POOR BOY NEVER KNEW WHAT WAS COMING
not only did this poor protagonist fall under the illusion that his father was dead and he was only aiding this society in seeking revenge, he ends up being 'saved' by his father in a massive train accident, only to deliver 'de coup de grace' to him, his creator, seconds later.
all of this is revealed, while on his last blood filled, gasping breath, this man we had come to refer to as the evil one, reveals that he is indeed the boys father.
WITH NOT A SECOND SPARED TO TAKE IT ALL IN
the Wesley Gibson finds himself awakening in this special bath of wax that throughout the movie has been revealed as a healing agent. Upon coming to, a man claiming to be his father's confident reasserts all that was said at the scene of the accident, the man was indeed his father, and that all the times the two had a confrontation, he was merely trying to tear him away from the hands of that society of assassins.
AT THIS POINT
we well know what is to happen in the remainder of the movie. this poor protagonist has to take on the persona of the antagonists of the movie and have a killing spree with the entire society of assassins to gain justice for the true death of his father. While we typically like the idea of Morgan Freeman being a good guy, and how could you not? we come to terms with the fact that he is the head hauncho of this operation and he needs to be taken out. It's an easy adjustment for the audience to deal with the fact Angelina Jolie played a little deviant herself, as gorgeous and evil are like yin and yang.
ALLS NOT SO WELL THAT ENDS WELL...
while the main character finds himself in quite the predicament, practically the kiss of death if you want to get down to it, Angie, Fox in the movie, proves to be a little less of a villiain than she's made herself out to be, and curves a bullet to carve its way into every head of the circle around Wesley, including hers.
THAT LEAVES EVERY EVIL EXTERMINATED
that is, expect for Sloan, Mr. Freeman's role, the head of the operations. But c'mon did Magneto ever die?
A real action movie-- that's what one crosses their fingers for when they start a movie these days. The commercials have had quite a tendency to include every -second- of action in those two minutes and that's where it ends. Thankfully, that is not the case for this movie.
The movie sure starts out with some interesting scenes that kind of dabble a bit in the waters of ''Fight Club'' and we're not exactly positive that the main character isn't just as crazy as Edward Norton in that flick.
The movie has an artistic way of portraying the main character [played by James McAvoy] Wesley Gibson's anxiety-- rather a heart condition that is triggered by moments of anxiety. Director Timur Bekmambetov had an innovative vision for shooting his panic attack moments, and cramming a good portion of action into those alone.
Although i was rather bemused at those opening scenes, i sat down to this movie for a reason, Angelina Jolie and guns. It doesn't take long for the Wesley to be thrown into a life that was both desperate to find him, and to elude him.
DESPERATE TO FIND him
because that's what this secret society of assassins wants: Him in it to take out their main nemesis, so to speak. They know of the potential this guy harbors because they've seen what his father is capable of. and they want him.
DESPERATE TO ELUDE him
because it is a life his father chose not to pass on to his son. this same father that abandoned him at birth did it not because he's a drunk or a druggie, but because he is an assassin in one of the most exclusive societies in the world and staying around would only mean death to the ones he loved. unfortunately much to his efforts, they found him anyways.
when i say they i mean the society of assassins, and when i say unfortunately, i'm referring to the fact that although they stumble across his son and sing praise of his father, they falsify his father's legacy in saying that his father was slain just recently by the hands of their particular ''nemesis'' , and no one can finish the job and seek redemption but his boy. So after they feed him this bed of lies, and train his dormant talent, they set him loose on his father.
THE SKULLS?
Nope, this society of assassins, shares a particular talent, curving bullets. A very interesting thing to let your mind run away on, not physically pheasable though. This ''team'' has a particular way of being able to turn their anxiety and ability to have their heart ''over-beat'' into a way of being able to make moves and plan moves at incredible speeds, beyond typical human abilities.
POOR BOY NEVER KNEW WHAT WAS COMING
not only did this poor protagonist fall under the illusion that his father was dead and he was only aiding this society in seeking revenge, he ends up being 'saved' by his father in a massive train accident, only to deliver 'de coup de grace' to him, his creator, seconds later.
all of this is revealed, while on his last blood filled, gasping breath, this man we had come to refer to as the evil one, reveals that he is indeed the boys father.
WITH NOT A SECOND SPARED TO TAKE IT ALL IN
the Wesley Gibson finds himself awakening in this special bath of wax that throughout the movie has been revealed as a healing agent. Upon coming to, a man claiming to be his father's confident reasserts all that was said at the scene of the accident, the man was indeed his father, and that all the times the two had a confrontation, he was merely trying to tear him away from the hands of that society of assassins.
AT THIS POINT
we well know what is to happen in the remainder of the movie. this poor protagonist has to take on the persona of the antagonists of the movie and have a killing spree with the entire society of assassins to gain justice for the true death of his father. While we typically like the idea of Morgan Freeman being a good guy, and how could you not? we come to terms with the fact that he is the head hauncho of this operation and he needs to be taken out. It's an easy adjustment for the audience to deal with the fact Angelina Jolie played a little deviant herself, as gorgeous and evil are like yin and yang.
ALLS NOT SO WELL THAT ENDS WELL...
while the main character finds himself in quite the predicament, practically the kiss of death if you want to get down to it, Angie, Fox in the movie, proves to be a little less of a villiain than she's made herself out to be, and curves a bullet to carve its way into every head of the circle around Wesley, including hers.
THAT LEAVES EVERY EVIL EXTERMINATED
that is, expect for Sloan, Mr. Freeman's role, the head of the operations. But c'mon did Magneto ever die?
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