Wanted

Confession 1: I went to this movie mainly to see James McAvoy
Confession 2: Prior to seeing this movie I had already looked up the plot on Movie Spoiler (http://www.themoviespoiler.com/)

After the bitter aftertaste of Hellboy II (see previous post) I figured I could use a movie where people just shoot each other up. I got what I asked for.

The movie's main focus is Wesley Gibson (McAvoy) whose life resembles something similar to Office Space (complete with stapler!). Wesley's home life is no better as his girlfriend is a nag and is cheating on him. His life changes when he meets a woman named Fox (Angelina Jolie) who informs him that his father (whom Wesley has never known) was part of a secret society called The Fraternity, which is basically a club for really gifted assasins. As his father was a gifted assasin, so is Wesley. Fox informs him that his father was killed by a rogue assasin and that it's Wesley's duty to avenge his father's death, but killing his killer.

The plot continues to get grittier as we learn about how The Fraternity chooses who they kill (by looms...they explain it more in the movie). The plot wasn't too amazing, it seemed to be pretty standard (loser to supercool guy). The visuals were probably the only thing that I felt had a stong stance in my memory after viewing the film...they were very graphic. You see every inch of blood as bullets fly through the heads of those who are killed in sometimes very grusome scenes. The movie also continues to hammer the point that one can either live life or become the loser that Wesley was prior to joining The Fraternity.

Between the violence and the language (tons of swearing...and one really great line by Morgan Freeman) it definitely earned its rating of R. If that's not enough proof the movies website even features an age restricted trailer so you can get a hint at the amount of violence this film employs.

I don't know if its worth seeing in the movie, I would definitely say its worth a rental on a boring weekend as the violence, gore, and eye-candy are worth a peek at. But the plot is somewhat muddy and not unique...so I reccomend this only as a rental.