Angelina Jolie is one hot mama. She exudes a sexy confidence virtually unmatched by any actress working today. She, simply put, has swagger.
And all that swagger is on full, fleshy display in Wanted, one wacked-out train ride of an action movie.
It is the pure definition of mindless, the laws of physics non-existent in this fantasy realm of bloody violence.
The film centers on Wesley Gibson (Scottish actor James McAvoy using a very fine American accent), an account manager wiling away his miserable life in an dead-end job, living in an apartment that rumbles because of the train rushes along just above, and stuck in a relationship with a girlfriend who's sleeping with his best friend.
He doesn't care about anything, and that fact alone is what concerns him.
Into his life walks Fox (played by Jolie), telling him that his father was in a secret organization of assassins and that he's about to be killed by the same guy who murdered his dad.
So begins Gibson's journey from wimp to assassin, a brutal one filled with beat downs and bloody hands while learning how to shoot a target on a curve.
Morgan Freeman is Sloane, the leader of what's called The Fraternity, an ancient organization that get messages in looms on who to kill, the idea being the person they kill today could mean saving thousands of lives later.
Okay, doesn't make much sense considering that this crew of assassins missed out on Stalin, Hitler and Idi Amin. Stuff it. Logic doesn't exist here, at least not in the world that director Timur Bekmambetov.
Instead, Bekmambetov is interested more in octane-fueled action filled with ridiculous stunts, like the one with the car flipping over a bunch of police cars and then landing on the side of a bus as it turns over and then driving off. Yeah, that happens in real life.
Again (repeat like a mantra), logic doesn't exist here.
Taking elements of The Matrix and other action movies, Bekmambetov has created a cool action flick that entertains with a little bit of good acting thrown in.
McAvoy gives his Gibson enough of that regular guy shtick to make us root for him every step of the way. His character does the things that all of smucks who want more out of life wish we could do.
And Jolie, as Fox, sizzles every time she's on the screen, making all of us guys real jealous of Brad Pitt. Lucky bastard.
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As a female, maybe I could have appreciated the movie for what it was instead of adding up the number of things on my "logic doesn't exist here" list if Angelina's co-star had been sizzling as well. At first, I justified McAvoy because Wesley was supposed to be an unpopular guy just making it by in life. Someone like Brad Pitt or Taye Diggs playing the role would have defied all logic. But wait! That fits right in with the mantra of the movie. Needless to say, I feel gypped.
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