Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5050582556056
Format: Full Screen, PAL
Label: Universal Pictures
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageItalianOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Pictures
Region Code: 2
Release Date: October 20, 2008
Running Time: 106 minutes
Studio: Universal Pictures

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
As the impresario behind gravity-defying Russian blockbuster Night Watch, it's inevitable that Hollywood would come calling for Timur Bekmambetov. With a studio budget and an international cast, including two Oscar winners, Timur cooks up a Hong Kong-styled actioner bursting with fast cars and big guns. Our unlikely hero is mild-mannered Chicago accountant Wesley Gibson (Atonement's James McAvoy), whose father died when he was a tot. Wesley never learned to stand up for himself, and his girlfriend, boss, and best buddy all take advantage until the seductive Fox (Angelina Jolie) rescues him from a sharpshooter named Cross (The Pianist's Thomas Kretschmann). After which, she whisks him away to a mansion on the edge of town to meet the other members of the Fraternity, where leader Sloan (Morgan Freeman) informs Wesley that Cross, a rogue agent, executed his father. Sloan believes Wesley has the goods to take him out, so he undergoes the Fraternity's brutal training regimen (Marc Warren and Common dish up some of the abuse). When he's ready, Sloan sends him out to fulfill his duty, but matters become complicated when Wesley finds out someone isn't telling the truth, leading our former milquetoast to exact an elaborate revenge. For those who've been following McAvoy's career to date, Wanted will surely come as a surprise. In adapting Mark Millar's comic series, Timur offers buckets of blood and a smidgen of depth, but fans of The Matrix and Mr. and Mrs. Smith will want to give this one a look. --Kathleen C. Fennessy




Rating: - Brainless Fun
Okay, so you can claim this rips off the style of many other films but the director DOES bring his own style to this movie (watch NIghtwatch and Daywatch) and it's all the better for it. When you come right down to it every movie is influenced by every other right back to the first one. Get over it, sit down and have fun.

As for complaining about the acting, it's not going to win awards but McAvoy is an engaging enough actor to pull this type of thing off. Jolie is given little enough ... Read More

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Rating: - Looks Great
It looks really good, very easy to watch and fun as well. Avoid if you like your films serious and believable but give it a watch if you want a good night in. James McAvoy is great as well.

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Rating: - Holy ****
I was looking to watch a mindless Hollywood action film tonight. I am halfway through this and my word... wooden, devoid of imagination, unrealistic to the point of parody. Please... what offensive stupidity. What brain numbing crapulence. I'd like to say I'm lost for words but... I'm not. Please can someone return the 60 mins of my life it's taken to finally turn this rubbish off. Ugh.

Update: this film was so awful out of curiosity I finished it. And my my my... How entertaining it finally ... Read More

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Rating: - Plot - Implausible/Special Effects - Brill/Fun Factor - Hillarious
Have just watched it for the second time with my mates and enjoyed it just as much the second time around. The Plot and the plausability of some of the things that happen are beyond belief. But for sheer entertainment value this is a film well worth watching. For those who do, have your pause button ready for when he smacks his mate's jaw with a keyboard as he storms out the office and pause the DVD as you see the keys come flying towards the camera.

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Rating: - Sharply directed thriller
Unsatisfied with his life, Wesley Gibson (McAvoy) joins a group of assassins to hunt down the man who killed his father.

From trailers, Wanted may seem like an ordinary action thriller with a stereotypical list of characters but Bekmambetov's picture is very diverse from your run of your mill conventional genres with a truly intense twisting plot and a bizarre choice of direction.

As good an actor as McAvoy (Last King of Scotland) is, he can't do anything about the stereotypical hero ... Read More

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