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Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie, Common, Terence Stamp
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Universal
EAN: 0025195051354
Format: AC-3
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Release Date: 2008-12-02
Running Time: 110
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Ok
Comment: The movie is ok. Great action scenes, but I wasn't impressed with the premise of the movie.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Loved it!
Comment: Okay with modern technology comes Hollywoods ability to make things grosser, and more realistic. This movie has no shortage of f bombs and other extremely violent and bloody scenes. With that said, . . I LOVED this movie. Action packed, edge of your seat, nail bitter. James was very convincing as the average Joe stuck in meaningless life. Angelina was very convincing assasin, Morgan, . . I mean heck its Morgan Freeman. Well, casted, beautifuly filmed, nice storyline. Very entertaining. As a mom though, . . .VEWIER DISCRESSION ADVISED!!! Not for the young!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Deeper Message In The Action
Comment: The story of a well meaning secret society being hijacked and taken over by a corrupt thug has a lot of parallels in the real world in regards to secret societies that were transformed into nihilistic, narcissistic death cults, who are obsessed with the acquisition of profit and power, and are the reason for a lot of the world's misery and suffering.
Sure the action is all eye candy but the movie is a loud, clear and brutal message about taking back control from murderous, Machiavellian manipulators(the wolves) whose only goal is total domination and "godhood" through the suppression, subjugation and eventual extermination of the world's masses(the sheep) as a pretext for creating a New World Order.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good movie with some very good actors
Comment: This is a good movie which has some very unique special effects. Most were done in moscow so they are pretty far out there. The idea of bending a bullets flight and seeing two bullets hitting each other is not that believable, but seeing Angelina and Morgan freeman again was worth the price of the DVD. Story line was some what believable.
Customer Rating:
Summary: I Guess The Laws Of Physics Isn't Something The Filmmakers Wanted...
Comment: Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy, who impressed me in The Last King Of Scotland till I learned his character didn't exist in real life) is a young twenty-something who's life is droll and predictable. He suffers from what he thinks are panic, headache-like attacks whenever he's provoked. Then one day he finds out through a mysterious woman (Angelina Jolie, who seems a little too old to play this Lara Croft look-a-like at this point) that he's the son of a former gone-rogue member of an elite group of assassins called Fraternity, who have special abilities of quick reflexes and healing powers. Brought in by the groups leader (Morgan Freeman collecting one Hell of a paycheck here), he's told of his past, very quickly trained in a variety of wild and unbelievable murderous ways, and is sent on a mission to use his new sharpshooter skills to kill the man that murdered his father. But is the team he's on the good guys or not?
Good question. Wanted is a fun but highly unbelievable story featuring some crazy CGI-filled stunts that base the movie in the fact that you can shoot a bullet like a MLB curve-ball. Cars are flying all over the place, trains are derailing with good guys barely getting a scratch, and heroes getting stabbed in the hand and sharp-shooting perfectly the next. In fact, if this movie reminded me of anything, take all of the Sci-Fi aspects of the first Matrix film, smarten-up Keanu a bit, and you have the first hour of Wanted to a tee. This definitely is one of those "leave your logic at the door" type of over-the-top films. But unlike the previous years "Shoot 'Em Up", this one will have you groan the phrase "Oh, c'mon on", than say it with glee. At times it's well-placed humor is put interestingly, but overall it's hard to believe plot and impossible in the real world stunts might be too much to fully keep you in the movie.
Concerning the single-disc edition, I can barely suggest it as an informative rental, much less a purchase. The SD picture and audio do live up to those standards, but outside of 6 minutes of start-up trailers (which can't be chosen afterwards), this disc has nothing but movie. But the movie does have alot of eye-candy in it, and will keep you entertained, but you gotta wonder, if your shirt had a few misstitching in it, is it trying to tell you a code to kill a certain person? No I didn't think so.
Pros:
*Alot of wacky, cool car chases and bullet travels in this movie,
but really it's a bit too much to be believed.
*James McAvoy proves you don't have to be Shia LaBeouf to play a 20-something in the wrong place at the wrong time in 00's movies.
*If you're a fan of Freeman and Jolie, well.....they're in this movie. Just think how they laughed all the way to the bank on this one.
Cons:
*The "Oh, C'mon!" factor is very high here.
*The ending, though at times clever, makes you think these guys take their job way too seriously.
*Though she's only five years older than McAvoy in real life, seeing these two kiss makes you hum the rock classic "Hot For Teacher". Hope he got at least a B for that performance there.
(RedSabbath Rating:7.0/10)
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Editorial Reviews:
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Universal Pictures Wanted (Blu-ray) Loosely based on the comic book miniseries of the same by Mark Millar and J.G. Jones, WANTED, directed by Timur Bekmambetov, follows anxiety-prone office drone Wesley Gibson (JamesMcAvoy) as he is inducted into the Fraternity, a clan of powerful killers that counted his father as a member. Pursued by rogue agent Cross (Thomas Kretschmann), Wesley is trained by the sleek, sexy Fox (Angelina Jolie) and the charismatic Sloan (Morgan Freeman), among others, to be just as proficient and deadly as his father. Once Wesley becomes a master assassin, he must confront Cross, and contend with the stunning ramifications of that encounter.
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