Wanted
Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 11:00AM 
Year: 2008, Director: Timur Bekmambetov
if you haven't seen a lot of action/take-some-guy-and-train-him movies then you might enjoy Wanted. if you have, then you probably wont. the film is The Assignment meets The Matrix meets Team America: World Police meets (a bunch of action movies i probably can't think of right now) meets Boiler Room and all of those movies are better.
this thing starts off well and i liked the ending and the film has a cool visual style, but basically it is just a good-looking rehash of these genre films with nothing that interesting or new being brought to the table. it has the confused protagonist finding out who he really is (ala The Matrix). it has him training and getting better at combat and such, much of it done in montage form (ala The Assignment and Team America). it almost felt like a parody right down to the use of certain shots.
the cool visual style and a naked back and butt shot of angelia jolie (assuming that's not a body double) can't save this thing...
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