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« Thursday « July 10, 2008
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Review: Wanted (2008)
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This movie had a great beginning, a great ending, a bland middle, some fabulous special effects, and a protagonist who transformed so quickly from super wimp into world class killer-for-hire that you simply couldn't believe in him. Add it all up and you -- well, I -- end up with barbaric, glossy cinema that didn't amount to much. Don't get me wrong, Angelina Jolie is in it, so that's worth at least the $10.75 admission, but to me, this movie was like one of those multiplex hot dogs that you get when you go to see a flick like this: when that red hot is rolling on those greasy spindles and you order it, and after you dress it up with mustard, and relish, and maybe even ketchup, if you're weird, you are expecting a tasty treat. But then you bite into it, and you realize this hot dog may have been sitting on those rollers for the last three weeks, and the relish is sour, and the mustard is runny, and suddenly you don't like what you're chewing on. This movie was sort of like that: what should have been a crisp, exhilarating thrill ride and a slick paean to ultra-violence, with Angelina, and even the great Morgan Freeman alongside, turned out to be a movie that isn't worth a second viewing, even when it replays on free TV. This is a long way of saying: Wanted was a brutal, muddled mess. I wanted so much more.
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