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Release Date:
27 June 2008 (USA)
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Tagline:
Choose your destiny. more
Plot:
A frustrated office worker learns that he is the son of a professional assassin, and that he shares his father's superhuman killing abilities. full summary | full synopsis
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Fraternity
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Assassin
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Boss
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Killer
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Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars.
Another 2 wins
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11 nominations
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WANTED: The Matrix with a great sense of humor.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | James McAvoy | ... | Wesley Gibson |
 | Morgan Freeman | ... | Sloan |
 | Angelina Jolie | ... | Fox |
 | Terence Stamp | ... | Pekwarsky |
 | Thomas Kretschmann | ... | Cross |
 | Common | ... | Gunsmith |
 | Kristen Hager | ... | Cathy |
| Marc Warren | ... | The Repairman |
 | David O'Hara | ... | Mr. X (as David Patrick O'Hara) |
| Konstantin Khabenskiy | ... | The Exterminator (as Konstantin Khabensky) |
| Dato Bakhtadze | ... | The Butcher |
 | Chris Pratt | ... | Barry |
 | Lorna Scott | ... | Janice |
| Sophiya Haque | ... | Puja |
| Brian Caspe | ... | The Pharmacist |
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Rated R for strong bloody violence throughout, pervasive language and some sexuality.
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110 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
South Korea:18 |
Ireland:16 |
UK:18 |
Finland:K-15 |
Singapore:NC-16 |
Hong Kong:IIB |
Philippines:R-13 (MTRCB) |
Malaysia:18SG |
USA:R (certificate #44457) |
Canada:13+ (Québec) |
Netherlands:16 |
South Africa:16 |
Canada:18A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) |
France:U (with warning) |
Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) |
Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) |
Australia:MA |
Portugal:M/16 |
New Zealand:R16 |
Brazil:18 |
Germany:18 |
Argentina:16 |
Japan:R-15 |
Sweden:15 |
Spain:18 |
Ireland:18 (DVD rating) |
Singapore:M18 (DVD rating) |
Peru:18 |
Denmark:15 |
Austria:16 |
India:A |
Iceland:16
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For the Russian dubbing, many Russian film stars from Nochnoy dozor (2004), Dnevnoy dozor (2006) and Ironiya sudby. Prodolzhenie (2007) took part: Sergey Bezrukov for James McAvoy, Galina Tyunina for Angelina Jolie, Yuriy Kutsenko, Valeriy Zolotukhin and others. The Russian dubbing script was written by Sergei Lukyanenko.
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Goofs:
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The Russian claims that the bath stimulates white blood cells, so wounds heal faster than they would on their own. In actuality, white blood cells are the body's defense against intrusion, either by foreign objects or by foreign organisms and have absolutely no effect on either clotting or cell regeneration.
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Wesley: [voice-over] It's my anorexic boss' birthday. This means there's a certain amount of inter-office pressure to stand around the conference table, eating crappy food and pretending to worship her. Acting for five minutes like Janice doesn't make all our lives miserable is the hardest work I'll do all day. My job title is account manager. I used to be called an account service representative, but a consultant told us we have to manage our clients, and to not service them. I have a girlfriend who I neither manage or service. That's my best friend Barry fucking her on an Ikea kitchen table I picked up for a really good price. I'm finding it hard to care about anything these days. In fact, the only thing I do care about is the fact that I can't care about anything. Seriously, it worries me. My name is Wesley Gibson. My dad walked out on my mom when I was seven days old. Sometimes I wonder if he ever looked into my baby blue eyes and asked himself "did I just father the most insignificant asshole of the twenty-first century"?
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Wesley: [voice-over] It's my anorexic boss' birthday. This means there's a certain amount of inter-office pressure to stand around the conference table, eating crappy food and pretending to worship her. Acting for five minutes like Janice doesn't make all our lives miserable is the hardest work I'll do all day. My job title is account manager. I used to be called an account service representative, but a consultant told us we have to manage our clients, and to not service them. I have a girlfriend who I neither manage or service. That's my best friend Barry fucking her on an Ikea kitchen table I picked up for a really good price. I'm finding it hard to care about anything these days. In fact, the only thing I do care about is the fact that I can't care about anything. Seriously, it worries me. My name is Wesley Gibson. My dad walked out on my mom when I was seven days old. Sometimes I wonder if he ever looked into my baby blue eyes and asked himself "did I just father the most insignificant asshole of the twenty-first century"?
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Movie Connections:
Spoofed in Disaster Movie (2008)
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Soundtrack:
Time to Say Goodbye
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What's the song in the end credits, and who sings it?Will there be a sequel?
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I am a huge fan of Mark Millar's Wanted. And so, when I entered the theater with a friend on an advance screening pass (comic book store owners are very nice people to befriend), fear gripped me. It HAS to suck...right? It's Hollywood...and a "loose" adaptation...
And so, once the credits rolled, and I was one of the many people laughing and clapping, the fear had long passed.
The films works. It provides the amazing opiate of style and dark humor, and in such massive quantities that both evoke the spirit of the source material and utterly ignore the latter 90% of the graphic novel. But that independent streak works for Wanted. You feel a sense of amused wonder and curiosity throughout, and all the plot twists that follow are different enough from the source to actually hold your attention without ever being prematurely obvious.
James McAvoy does an excellent job, and his wry, sarcastic narration sets the mood of the film perfectly. His evolution from pansy to Neo has a genuine and pleasantly arrogant feel to it, although the stereotypical Rocky-esquire training montage is used to speed things up a bit (what a tiresome tool). Basically, his version of a cinematic Neo is both smarter, more entertaining, and more intelligent.
Backing him up, more with sexy looks and an "I'm too cool for you; you're not Brad" attitude than anything, is Angelina Jolie. Her character screams Trinity. And loudly. Regardless, watching her on-screen is a pleasure. She's terribly likable, and extremely lethal throughout.
Morgan Freeman's Morpheus, called Sloan here, is played well, although the role is a bit beneath his skill as an actor. He makes it work though, playing the wizened and mature helper very well. More importantly, he delivers an excellent (and unexpected) line that rivals Samuel L. Jackson's memorable expression from Snakes on a Plane. That alone makes any price of admission worthwhile.
Any other character serves as nothing more than white noise, there to populate the world rather than intrigue.
The theme of Wanted is all about taking charge of your life and making your own choices, something that the very premise of the first hour of the film both adheres to and contradicts. Rather than analyze it here (and waste time arguing the pleasantly mad logic of a movie where bullets bend stylishly), I'll leave that to the people who inevitably will, assuming the bullet-fu and gore don't completely captivate them (and they should). Wanted IS violent, truly, and yet it doesn't strive to turn every frame into a gory, action-packed orgasm. The film handles it with grace and a style I sorely wish more action movies took into consideration.
As bullets curve, heads get punctured, hilarity ensues, and rats explode (peanut butter rocks, BTW), you'll smile besides yourself.
This really isn't a superhero comic adaptation...it's The Matrix with a great sense of humor.
Enjoy it.