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Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Arizona Republic (Bill Goodykoontz)Arizona Republic (Bill Goodykoontz)
A genuine thrill ride that has the added bonus of being an action movie you don't have to turn your brain off to enjoy. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Arizona Republic (Bill Goodykoontz)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow)Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow)
It's a tall tale of skyscraper proportions: the gory story of a put-upon accountant who discovers that he's the son of a top assassin in a secret world of super-assassins. The film pulls you by the scruff of the neck and makes you thankful for it. It ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for efilmcritic.com (Dan Lybarger)efilmcritic.com (Dan Lybarger)
For most of its running time, 'Wanted' makes a virtue of outlandishness. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at efilmcritic.com (Dan Lybarger)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Flick Filosopher (MaryAnn Johanson)Flick Filosopher (MaryAnn Johanson)
[S]imultaneously feel[s] exhilaratingly like one of the most cleverly original action scripts in years and... comfortably reminiscent of a slew of hero's-journey adventures... ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Flick Filosopher (MaryAnn Johanson)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)
a mad cross between Busby Berkeley and the demolition derby with grace somehow trumping brute force ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)
Distorts your view of reality, ripping up the screen with a distinctive style that bends time, scale and motion at its whim. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for About.com (Rebecca Murray)About.com (Rebecca Murray)
Wanted is absolutely relentless and deliciously nasty %u2013 a film made for action junkies tolerant of messy plots and underdeveloped supporting characters. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at About.com (Rebecca Murray)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for CHUD (Devin Faraci)CHUD (Devin Faraci)
Sometimes you want to listen to a symphony, sometimes you want to listen to a beautifully crafted pop song. But sometimes you want to crank the speakers and bang your head, and that's why God (and Timur Bekmambetov) gave you Wanted. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at CHUD (Devin Faraci)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for ComingSoon.net (Edward Douglas)ComingSoon.net (Edward Douglas)
The R-rated action movie we've all been waiting for and Wesley Gibson is the hero we all want to be. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at ComingSoon.net (Edward Douglas)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Empire Magazine (Kim Newman)Empire Magazine (Kim Newman)
Many action movies, comic books and geek-appeal TV shows are fantasies of empowerment. Protagonists from Luke Skywalker through Peter Parker and Buffy Summers to Harry Potter are mistaken for dullards by everyone in their lives. They are whisked out of ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Empire Magazine (Kim Newman)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Shadows on the Wall (Rich Cline)Shadows on the Wall (Rich Cline)
Like The Matrix, it's not nearly as complex as it pretends to be, but it's visually stunning and relentlessly entertaining ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Shadows on the Wall (Rich Cline)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Teletext (Victor Olliver)Teletext (Victor Olliver)
Take a slice of The Matrix, stir in pinches of X-Men and Da Vinci Code and garnish with a sprinkling of Hellraiser - and Wanted sounds like a re-heated Sunday roast. Add the bloody viscera of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and you'll think it's a dodgy dish ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Teletext (Victor Olliver)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Cinematical (James Rocchi)Cinematical (James Rocchi)
Wanted's a corporate product, but, thankfully, it's an excellent one -- the two-fisted, double-barreled high-octane guilty pleasure summer action movie you've been waiting for. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Cinematical (James Rocchi)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for CinemaBlend.com (Joshua Tyler)CinemaBlend.com (Joshua Tyler)
The action genre hasn't felt this fresh and alive since 1999 and the Wachowskis. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at CinemaBlend.com (Joshua Tyler)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Film Threat (Pete Vonder Haar)Film Threat (Pete Vonder Haar)
Wanted's greatest asset is director Timur Bekmambetov's (in his English-language directorial debut) willingness to acknowledge the film's utter goofiness. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Film Threat (Pete Vonder Haar)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten)Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten)
If you’re now or ever was a card-carrying fraternity member, you’ll recall what you went through to turn from a mere pledge to a brother. If your experience was like mine, your final days as a pledge was called “hell week,” when you had to scrub ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
It's trash, but I love it anyway. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Charlotte Observer (Lawrence Toppman)Charlotte Observer (Lawrence Toppman)
Bloodlust aside, the director has remarkable visual ideas and a fine sense of pacing. He blends slow, fast and normal speeds cleverly, making old tricks look new, and does amazing things with cars. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Charlotte Observer (Lawrence Toppman)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (John Beifuss)Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (John Beifuss)
It's true that I frequently wax grumpy about "MTV editing," spastic camerawork, digital trickery and the other currently fashionable filmmaking tools that too often sacrifice visual coherence for momentary sensationalist impact. In this area, however, ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (John Beifuss)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Aisle Seat (Mike McGranaghan)Aisle Seat (Mike McGranaghan)
We don't really get a lot of straight-up action pictures anymore. At least, not the hardcore kind that was such a staple of the country's moviegoing diet in the 80's and 90's. Yes, there's a lot of on-screen action to be found, but it's often in ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Aisle Seat (Mike McGranaghan)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for LarsenOnFilm (Josh Larsen)LarsenOnFilm (Josh Larsen)
I'm going to commit a film-critic sin and suggest Wanted is a better movie from director Timur Bekmambetov than the acclaimed films he made in his native Russia. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at LarsenOnFilm (Josh Larsen)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Washington Post (Ann Hornaday)Washington Post (Ann Hornaday)
Jolie, thin as a wraith and as still as alabaster, reigns supreme as the queen of great screen objects, and Freeman has one of the film's funniest (if profane) lines. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Washington Post (Ann Hornaday)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Associated Press (Christy Lemire)Associated Press (Christy Lemire)
Sure, you've seen plenty of this type of amped-up nonsense before... That doesn't make Wanted any less enjoyable. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Associated Press (Christy Lemire)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Flipside Movie Emporium (Rob Vaux)Flipside Movie Emporium (Rob Vaux)
The central question behind Wanted is one that no summer action picture should have to answer: is flashy technique enough to justify fundamentally amoral content? Should we excuse the film's nasty ethical tone because the images are so gorgeous and ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Flipside Movie Emporium (Rob Vaux)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Film Blather (Eugene Novikov)Film Blather (Eugene Novikov)
I like Timur Bekmambetov’s Wanted, but it isn’t a very smart film. In some ways, it resembles a superstar athlete whom you’ll gladly watch play but prefer not to hear speak. Enjoyable, admirably aggressive, and often very funny, it works even as it ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Film Blather (Eugene Novikov)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Christianity Today (Peter T. Chattaway)Christianity Today (Peter T. Chattaway)
The plot has its share of holes, but for those who like shutting off their brains but discovering they might be thinking deeply anyway, Wanted is a worthy diversion. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Christianity Today (Peter T. Chattaway)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Toronto Star (Peter Howell)Toronto Star (Peter Howell)
On second thought, based on the mystical science of his bullet-bending new thriller Wanted, it's possible the guy is a real Einstein. Maybe he's discovered hitherto unknown loopholes to natural laws. He's for certain flouting one immutable edict. It's ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Toronto Star (Peter Howell)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Jam! Movies (Kevin Williamson)Jam! Movies (Kevin Williamson)
Wanted is so hyperbolic, even the bullets are on Red Bull. Rather than fly straight, these zig and zag, swerving and veering around corners to obliterate well-groomed unsuspecting targets. Film-goers wandering into this exhilarating, exhausting ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Jam! Movies (Kevin Williamson)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Kansas City Star (Robert W. Butler)Kansas City Star (Robert W. Butler)
Blend the killer-in-training elements of “La Femme Nikita” with the physics-defying stunts of “The Matrix,” whip in the Oedipal angst of “The Empire Strikes Back” and sprinkle liberally with “Fight Club’s” bad attitude. That’s the ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Kansas City Star (Robert W. Butler)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Sacramento Bee (Carla Meyer)Sacramento Bee (Carla Meyer)
Wanted engages and even wows throughout, thanks to its exceptional visuals and something far more rare in a summer blockbuster: a stellar lead performance. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Sacramento Bee (Carla Meyer)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Seattle Times (Mark Rahner)Seattle Times (Mark Rahner)
Next to "The Hottie and the Nottie" -- and for entirely different reasons -- no movie this year will make you want to shoot someone in the head more than "Wanted." The hyperviolent action-fantasy from the director of Russia's megahit "Night Watch" and ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Seattle Times (Mark Rahner)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for TIME Magazine (Richard Corliss)TIME Magazine (Richard Corliss)
Directed at a pitch of gritty giddiness by the Kazakhstan-born Timur Bekmambetov, this hard-R splatter-fest about a team of sanctified assassins is also the summer's zazziest action movie. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at TIME Magazine (Richard Corliss)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Movie Retriever (Brian Tallerico)Movie Retriever (Brian Tallerico)
The guilty pleasure of the year has finally arrived. The movie that you'll be slightly ashamed to admit you secretly love - and that you'll probably end up watching on cable long after the "bigger" movies from Summer '08 have faded from memory - is ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Movie Retriever (Brian Tallerico)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
I wasn't expecting much in the way of science when I went to see this based-on-a-comic-book action movie and in fact there is no science at all to it. The movie is filled with nonsense about people with supernatural abilities that defy the laws of ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for The Cinema Source (Michael Dance)The Cinema Source (Michael Dance)
In Fight Club, Edward Norton meets someone who wakes him up the the joys of violence and mayhem, someone who is the epitome of everything Norton's office drone desires himself to be: Brad Pitt. In Wanted, the same thing happens, only the key person is ...read the complete Wanted movie review at The Cinema Source (Michael Dance)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)
Wanted is kind of unintelligible and idiotic. Also kind of nasty and brutish. And also undeniably kind of fun. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Beliefnet (Nell Minow)Beliefnet (Nell Minow)
Nasty, twisted, pulpy, and brutally violent. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Beliefnet (Nell Minow)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Worcester Telegram & Gazette (Daniel M. Kimmel)Worcester Telegram & Gazette (Daniel M. Kimmel)
It's almost as if the filmmaker wants to lull audiences into thinking this is a conventional action movie, and then pull the rug out from under us... ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Worcester Telegram & Gazette (Daniel M. Kimmel)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Sean Axmaker)Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Sean Axmaker)
ou either go with the fantasy and enjoy the impossible acts of kinetic creativity or get stuck in the preposterousness of the premise and the flippant execution. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Sean Axmaker)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Sci-Fi Movie Page (James O'Ehley)Sci-Fi Movie Page (James O'Ehley)
Sixteen years after John Woo’s spectacular ultra-violent shootout in Hard Boiled, twenty years after Bruce Willis single-handedly stopped an entire group of terrorists in Die Hard and almost a decade of “bullet time” after The Matrix – what more ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Sci-Fi Movie Page (James O'Ehley)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Premiere Magazine (Malina Saval)Premiere Magazine (Malina Saval)
Within the first five minutes of the action film Wanted, a trench-coated assassin flings himself through a top story window of a Chicago skyscraper and leaps balletically in slow-mo to land on an adjacent rooftop. A bloody, gravity-defying shoot-out ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Premiere Magazine (Malina Saval)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Groucho Reviews (Peter Canavese)Groucho Reviews (Peter Canavese)
At the center of Wanted's labyrinthine plot is a big room with a big loom, The Loom of Fate. In his very best sonorous tones, Morgan Freeman's elder-statesman assassin Sloan explains to new recruit Welsey Gibson (James McAvoy) that the Loom is a ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Groucho Reviews (Peter Canavese)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for L.A. Weekly (Luke Y. Thompson)L.A. Weekly (Luke Y. Thompson)
Angelina's first line in the movie is "You apologize too much." The movie itself never does ...read the complete Wanted movie review at L.A. Weekly (Luke Y. Thompson)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for New York Magazine (David Edelstein)New York Magazine (David Edelstein)
Wanted has the kind of irresistible summer-movie allure that makes studio executives drool in anticipation. Even its title must swim before their eyes and transform into 'Want-to-See'. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at New York Magazine (David Edelstein)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for MSNBC (Alonso Duralde)MSNBC (Alonso Duralde)
If you like your summer popcorn movies to be bloody, frenetic, energized, adrenaline-pumping and utterly bananas, “Wanted” is the movie you’ve been awaiting. A movie whose defiance of logic and physics feels both sublime and ridiculous (if not ...read the complete Wanted movie review at MSNBC (Alonso Duralde)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for TheMovieBoy.com (Dustin Putman)TheMovieBoy.com (Dustin Putman)
Alive with stylistic innovation and impressively clean storytelling. The experience is close to exhilarating. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at TheMovieBoy.com (Dustin Putman)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)
Call it the fast and the furious Russian style: Bekmambetov has made a fast moving, relentlessly violent film that injects visceral frills and thrills into the action genre with a cool and sardonic sensibility that would please Tarantino and Rodriguez ...read the complete Wanted movie review at EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Philadelphia Daily News (Gary Thompson)Philadelphia Daily News (Gary Thompson)
Fans of the Nightwatch series will recognize the curiously sour nature of the father-son storyline. Coupled with the blood and body count, it makes for a strangely bleak summer movie, but a welcome, offbeat 'B' for the strong of stomach. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Philadelphia Daily News (Gary Thompson)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for KyleSmithOnline.com (Kyle Smith)KyleSmithOnline.com (Kyle Smith)
Describing "Wanted" as a heavy metal movie doesn't quite do the job. It's a 12-armed heavy metal drummer on Red Bull, kicking and wailing through two hours of impossible. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at KyleSmithOnline.com (Kyle Smith)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert)Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert)
Working a niche somewhere between the black comedy of Fight Club and the ultrafashionable mayhem of The Matrix, Wanted is an experience that's hard to defend as a whole but mesmerizing in a highway-accident rubbernecking kind of way. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for BrianOrndorf.com (Brian Orndorf)BrianOrndorf.com (Brian Orndorf)
An optical flame-thrower for the first hour, with the director pulling out all the stops to announce Wanted as a film cocked and loaded with exclamation points pointed in all directions. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at BrianOrndorf.com (Brian Orndorf)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for E! Online (Alex Markerson)E! Online (Alex Markerson)
No matter how good your day was, it probably wasn't as exciting as this: Dead-end office drone Wesley (James McAvoy) discovers he's a natural-born killer and heir to a storied legacy, all of which is definitely OK by him since he has a foxy agent called ...read the complete Wanted movie review at E! Online (Alex Markerson)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for Can Magazine (Fred Topel)Can Magazine (Fred Topel)
I "wanted" to love Wanted but I only liked it. It's Alice in Wonderland for grown-ups and you've never seen action like this before, but the script really could have used a polish. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Can Magazine (Fred Topel)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for New York Daily News (Elizabeth Weitzman)New York Daily News (Elizabeth Weitzman)
That Timur Bekmambetov's amped-up action flick Wanted makes absolutely no sense is entirely irrelevant. Your brain, in fact, can take a two-hour hiatus. But your adrenal glands will be working overtime. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at New York Daily News (Elizabeth Weitzman)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)
While I share many of John´s points, I will have to admit that I do not share his high standards or refined tastes. Films like "Iron Man," "Die Hard," and "Terminator 2" have proven action flicks can still be intelligent with heart and a sharp script. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for Daily Herald (IL) (Jeff Bayer)Daily Herald (IL) (Jeff Bayer)
The phrase, imitation is the best form of flattery, has been said to death. But, since there is a lot of death in Wanted I figured I was allowed to break it out again. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Daily Herald (IL) (Jeff Bayer)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
Bekmambetov wastes no opportunity to arouse his audience. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for filmcritic.com (Sean O'Connell)filmcritic.com (Sean O'Connell)
there are more than enough original thrills to distance Wanted from its assorted predecessors ...read the complete Wanted movie review at filmcritic.com (Sean O'Connell)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for Onion AV Club (Keith Phipps)Onion AV Club (Keith Phipps)
It carries a bitter aftertaste, but by those low standards, it's a considerable success. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Onion AV Club (Keith Phipps)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
Director Timur Bekmambetov can't decide on a tone, and the film feels by turns ridiculous and dead serious. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Screen It! (Jim Judy)Screen It! (Jim Judy)
Let's face it, men and women are pretty much wired in different ways. While there are obviously exceptions to the rule going both directions, the sexes often view and react to things quite differently. Take, for instance, movies. While both sides of the ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Screen It! (Jim Judy)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Slant Magazine (Nick Schager)Slant Magazine (Nick Schager)
ow this is how you start a summer movie. After some preliminary nonsense, Wanted kicks itself into fifth gear when unhappy account manager Wesley (James McAvoy), having briefly exited his hellish cubicle prison, stops at the pharmacy for anxiety meds and ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Slant Magazine (Nick Schager)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)
Wanted hurtles past our eyes and ears too fast to register as much more than a video game. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)
A fifty-fifty mix of smart and smart-ass, Timur Bekmambetov’s Wanted is a film that would be something like a masterpiece if it was even a third as cool as it thinks it is. That’s not to say that this visually stylish exercise in comic-book violence ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for eFilmCritic.com (David Cornelius)eFilmCritic.com (David Cornelius)
And now, a brief exercise in Reading Too Much Into Things: Midway through “Wanted,” superhero assassin Angelina Jolie teaches superhero assassin-in-training James McAvoy of the importance of shutting up and following orders. Members of an ancient ...read the complete Wanted movie review at eFilmCritic.com (David Cornelius)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Creative Loafing (Matt Brunson)Creative Loafing (Matt Brunson)
The script's twists and turns aren't nearly as clever as the writers pretend, and after a while, the movie's gleeful approach to nihilism proves wearying. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Creative Loafing (Matt Brunson)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Newsday (Rafer Guzman)Newsday (Rafer Guzman)
Wanted demands a high level of credulity, but in exchange it offers some rewards: improbable car-chases, gritty hand-to-hand combat and the sight of Angelina Jolie poured into her pants and packing a pistol. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Newsday (Rafer Guzman)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for USA Today (Claudia Puig)USA Today (Claudia Puig)
The thrilling stunts and hyperkinetic action scenes are the undisputed stars of this surprisingly entertaining film. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at USA Today (Claudia Puig)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Deseret News, Salt Lake City (Jeff Vice)Deseret News, Salt Lake City (Jeff Vice)
There's no denying that Bekmambetov can direct an exciting action scene. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Deseret News, Salt Lake City (Jeff Vice)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Sean the Movie Guy (Sean McBride)Sean the Movie Guy (Sean McBride)
If you're one of those summer movie fanatics, the kind of person who values non-stop action and cutting-edge special effects to the exclusion of character and story, then the new movie "Wanted" is certainly the film you want to see ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Sean the Movie Guy (Sean McBride)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
Action. Starring James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman. Directed by Timur Bekmambetov. (R. 110 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) There are two ways, equally valid, of looking at "Wanted": (1) as a go-for-broke action movie of mixed quality and ...read the complete Wanted movie review at San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt (St. Paul))St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt (St. Paul))
The bullets get more close-ups than the actors in the improbable-but-fun "Wanted." James McAvoy is recruited by Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie and Common into a fraternity of super-assassins who use their minds to curve the flight of bullets, among ...read the complete Wanted movie review at St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt (St. Paul))
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Oregonian (Shawn Levy)Oregonian (Shawn Levy)
Looks like all the geeks who haven't done so yet are going to have to learn to pronounce the name Timur Bekmambetov. (It's TEE-mur Bek-MAM-betov.) To now, the Russian director has been known for a brilliant pair of crackpot films, "Night Watch" and ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Oregonian (Shawn Levy)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for MTV (Kurt Loder)MTV (Kurt Loder)
While "Wanted" is a comic book movie, the director, Kazakh filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov, has wisely dumped a lot of the schoolboy nihilism that made Mark Millar's six-issue miniseries a sometimes disagreeable read. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at MTV (Kurt Loder)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Los Angeles Daily News (Glenn Whipp)Los Angeles Daily News (Glenn Whipp)
Then again, the filmmakers seem more interested in toys and guns than women, a common affliction to this set. And Bekmambetov doesn't always know when to stop with the squibs. The movie's most spectacular detonation comes from Freeman impeccably ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Los Angeles Daily News (Glenn Whipp)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Wall Street Journal (Joe Morgenstern)Wall Street Journal (Joe Morgenstern)
Before Wanted reaches the end of its wild course, the violence that's been nothing but oppressive becomes genuinely if perversely impressive. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Wall Street Journal (Joe Morgenstern)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for TV Guide's Movie Guide (Maitland McDonagh)TV Guide's Movie Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
Fresh off the blockbuster success of sprawling horror-fantasy epics NIGHT WATCH (2004) and DAY WATCH (2006), Kazakh-Russian director Timur Bekmambatov tackled Hollywood on its own ground with this comic book-based shoot 'em up. The result is slick, ...read the complete Wanted movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
Wanted is an assaultive roller coaster of a movie that would be more fun if the violence weren't so nasty, and if the script made any sense. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)
The effects and bloodshed gradually lose their power to provoke, and become thuddingly tedious - and with nothing else going for it beyond mere eye candy, Wanted leaves you wanting. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Duane Dudek)Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Duane Dudek)
Wanted succeeds in making a strong impression rather than a lasting one. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Duane Dudek)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Boston Globe (Ty Burr)Boston Globe (Ty Burr)
Wanted is quite happy to judge a man by the size of his gun. The irony is that the biggest one here belongs to Jolie, and her Amazon smile indicates she knows exactly how nervous that makes the boys. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Boston Globe (Ty Burr)
Wanted (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Paste Magazine (Robert Davis)Paste Magazine (Robert Davis)
Despite the foreknowledge provided by advertisements, Morgan Freeman's appearance is almost surprising because Wanted has the tone of a second-rate action thriller that wouldn't normally get the time of day from the master of dialogue delivery. ...read the complete Wanted movie review at Paste Magazine (Robert Davis)
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by Scott on January 23, 2009 Clearfield, Utah
I thought this movie was excellent...I was very impressed with the creativity of some of the ideas they used in this movie. Curving bullets is too similar to ...
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by ryan on January 22, 2009 Ogden, Utah
Anything with Angelina Jolie is bound to be a great movie. Morgan Freeman played an outstanding role as a hardcore gun slinging bad guy. I give this one two thumbs up I can watch this at least once a week and never get sick of it. ...
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by cory on January 20, 2009 Ogden, Utah
Disregard the silly story and this movie is a creative, adrenaline-pumping action flick. If you like this movie, I suggest watching Night Watch and Day Watch, by the same director. Although not as hectic, these movies are just as imaginative. ...
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