Could you rephrase your comments on the movie? For the life of me I’m trying to decipher it but I just get lost! Especially the part about comparing the ending of the comic to the ending of the movie. Actually I’m curious to hear any thoughts on the comic, really.
Even now I’m still not sure what to say about this movie when my friends ask me about Wanted, but mostly I say I enjoyed it. Despite some true ridiculousness, the action stuff was really inventive. You can’t take it seriously and that would be the point, where most if not all the summer movie blockbusters take themselves too way seriously (Indy4 somewhat excluded) yet offer little more than CGI novelties in another wise hollow experience, Wanted takes it a step higher and just seems to have fun with it all without managing not to get a big head about itself (staggering if you consider how perposterious the effects were, they work in harmony with the the rest of the over-the-top characters and direction). The entire cast, crew, director and visual effects team seemed to say “let’s just go for it” and I think they succeeded. And if that isn’t a small triumph in the world of self-important, hyper-indulgent moviemaking these days, what is? All the elements firing on all pistons to put together something stunning and fun. And that’s what actually sets it apart from the crowd of other… crowd-pleasers. It was indeed a symphony… of dry irony, look-at-me slow-motion, bullet orgasms and blowing up stuff real good. Weird, ain’t it?
It definitely plays to the ADD teen crowd who can’t get enough slow-mo, gun-gasms and explosions, those who got teased in high school and probably didn’t get enough hugs from daddy as a kid but they lucked out with a winner. Wanted knows what is, where it comes from and relishes in it like a pig in mud hehe. Is it an homage to the original Matrix or a ripoff? I’m going with the former, but does it matter? it’s great fun and good company to be in. I was also impressed with the twist which I was not expecting from such a movie that didn’t seem to be aiming very high plotwise. [spoiler]If his dad wanted to save him, why not just… I dunno… try frakkin’ TALKING to your damn kid lol Which of course would be the bit of common sense that negates the whole movie.[/spoiler]By the end, it came as a satisfying turn and made me glad I took the ride. Wanted certainly does movie fun better than other popcorn films of the summer and even the past few years.
It’s definitely one of those spectacles you gotta see to believe… if only to see wtf those scenes in the trailers are all about. As outrageous spectacles go, Wanted was one worth witnessing.
Even Konstantin Khabensky had a brief appearance as a character as ridiculous as the movie itself hehe. Like Timur Bekmambetov I guess he was just happy to be in an american movie so why not have fun with it