Dodging Bullets is Futile When Someone Knows How To Curve It

Running Time:     1 hr. 48 min.
Release Date:     June 27th, 2008 (wide)
MPAA Rating:     R for strong bloody violence throughout, pervasive language and some sexuality.
Distributors:     Universal Pictures Distribution
Production Co.: Kickstart Productions, Marc Platt Productions, Top Cow Entertainment
Studios: Universal Pictures
Filming Locations:     Prague,
Chicago, USA
Produced in:     United States

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A movie that stars Angelina Jolie (and her extra-jointed thumb)…do you need any more reason to watch this movie?

Seriously, though, the merits of this movie doesn’t only include Angelina’s delicious behind. If you want some cool ass-kicking, be it formulaic and Hollywoody, action movie filled with jaw-dropping visuals and perfectly choreographed fight scenes, then this is your movie.

Wanted is a movie that tells the story of how a young average guy, whose life totally sucks (who wouldn’t think so, with a boss who kept snapping staplers in front of your face?), turned from dork to demon when he learned by joining the Fraternity that he’s a born assassin. He submitted himself to the tutelage of the foxy Fox (Angelina Jolie) and the other bold, weapon-wielding assassins of the Fraternity overseen by Sloan (Morgan Freeman), fired up by his desire to avenge the death of his father who’s also an assassin member of the group. In the end, though, he gleaned the truth from the lies and set out to claim justice from the real antagonist.

One of my favorite scenes is the one when Angelina scooped up a bent over McAvoy into the red car by make a tire-burning, almost 360-degree turn. I think a lot of guys, since watching this movie, have fantasized being kidnapped this way.

Another favorite would be the scene when McAvoy decimated the number of assassins inside the textile factory all by himself and he kept changing guns by getting the gun from the last person he killed. That got me thinking of how this movie could, perhaps, be a great video game.

I think a lot has reviewed this movie as lacking moral fiber. In a movie with death and violence in almost every scene, I wouldn’t be surprised if people would react to it like that. But I’d rather see this film as a visually-arresting presentation of the question: will killing one person to save a thousand others be a right justification to kill?

Sloan showed Wesley the Loom of Fate that decides who is next to be killed. He’s given his assignment. But Wesley asks, why does he have to kill this man he doesn’t even know? What did he do that he should be killed? And perhaps, if Sloan could say it, then he could have said: Because the Loom says so. Because I say so. And for a while Wesley goes on killing, in the hopes that soon, his next assignment will be to kill his father’s assassin. Perhaps, it’s his justification for killing. For Sloan, his justification is profit and to bring the Fraternity to the level of “Gods of men”. For the rest of the assassins, it’s simply the Code; they follow it and die for it.

For me, the movie tells us that, though sometimes it can be quite clear as that of the wefts and warps of a piece of fabric weaved by the Loom of Fate, that certain persons need to be punished, one just has to question the motives and the origin of such motives because this will be a huge factor in discerning if the punishment is just or not.

But, actually, if you just want to enjoy an action-packed movie, you need not have to ponder which character should get the beating. Just sit back, relax, and get rocked by this awesome movie.

And I’m quite sure, by the time you’re through with it, you’d want to curve bullets too like Wesley.