The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Wanted is a balls to the wall awesome summer popcorn flick. Based on the comic series by Mark Millar and J.G. Jones, director Timur Bekmambetov tells the story of Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) a man allowing his time to tick away in a miserable existence. How bad is Wesley's life? His girlfriend cheats on him with his supposed best friend, his job sucks as he is tormented in a cubicle daily, and to top it all off Wesley has stress induced panic attacks. On one of Wesley's trips to acquire pills for his said panic attacks he encounters Fox (Angelina Jolie). Fox explains that Wesley's father was one of the greatest assassins of all time and that while working for a group known as the Fraternity he was killed by a rogue assassin. During this encounter the rogue assassin tries to kill Wesley. Fox and Wesley escape to where we are introduced to the r test of the Fraternity. Sloan (Morgan Freeman) plays the leader of the group and offers Wesley a way out of his life and asks him to join the Fraternity. At first Wesley is reluctant to join untilhe next morning he sees he has inherited all his fathers fortune massing millions of dollars. I really love the next scene because anyone who has hated their job just feels so good when they see Wesley call out the office boss. It's pure awesome.
After quiting his job Wesley joins Fox and they return to the Fraternity. Wesley trains in a cliche action movie montage. After Wesley completes his training hes anxious to go after the rogue assassin but Sloan gives him another assignment. Wesley is asked to kill some guy but questions the call. Fox explains why they do what they do with some obvious character development. Wesley now having no quills with his mission goes ahead and takes a bunch of targets in awesome fashion. Sloan satisfied with Wesley's skills sends him after the rogue assassin.
While on his mission for vengeance Wesley learns that the Fraternity's actions may not have been just after all. You can piece whats coming after this but final scenes are still satisfying. Morgan Freeman curses! Twice! Overall Wanted is a fun, unique action film that will keep you in your seat.

Final Verdict: B+