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Wanted 2008 123movies

Wanted 2008 123movies

Choose your destiny.Jun. 19, 2008110 Min.
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Watch: Wanted 2008 123movies, Full Movie Online – A young man finds out his long lost father is an assassin. When his father is murdered, the son is recruited into his father’s old organization and trained by a man named Sloan to follow in his dad’s footsteps..
Plot: Doormat Wesley Gibson discovers that his recently murdered father – who Wesley never knew – belonged to a secret guild of assassins. After a leather-clad sexpot drafts Wesley into the society, he hones his innate killing skills and turns avenger.
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6.7/10 Votes: 390,450
71% | RottenTomatoes
64/100 | MetaCritic
N/A Votes: 6208 Popularity: 28.769 | TMDB

Reviews:


I typically never write a review on a film that I’ve already seen more than once, because I insist on the review reflecting my first (and strongest) impression of the film. But after watching Wanted for what must be the 5th or 6th time now, I suddenly felt like writing something anyway, so here I go.

Let me begin by saying, this is one strange film. Strange in the sense that it’s literally like a train wreck that you can’t keep your eyes off because it’s so fascinating to watch. And you almost feel sick with guilt and exhilaration because you’re enjoying it so much. Violence never looked so gorgeous before…

Wanted is about a guy named Wesley Gibson, who is such a hopeless, pathetic dweeb that even Google won’t return any results when he types in his own name. He is “rescued” from his pitiful cubicle existence by a gorgeous woman named Fox, who recruits him into an organisation of assassins known as The Fraternity, supposedly because they believe he is the only person who can kill the man who killed his father. Little does he know just how drastically his life will actually change once he agrees to join them.

The casting of the film is spot-on. James McAvoy has already proved himself to be a versatile actor and he is very believable as a weak push-over, who finds confidence in the fact that group of trained assassins apparently believe in his abilities. He also makes his character likable and fun to watch, because he delivers it with a sense of humour and you can actually relate to him because his situation is so understandable. Basically, he’s just another slave to the wage, looking for a way to break free. This way is initially offered to him by Angelina Jolie, and who could say no to a woman like that… Ms Jolie plays a role that seems like it could only have been written specifically for her. Who else could play a beautiful and deadly assassin who’s charismatic and covered in tattoos? She could and would kill you in a heartbeat, and yet you just want to be near her. Morgan Freeman plays Sloan, the leader of the Fraternity, and, well… I hardly need to elaborate on this one, do I? He makes pretty much every film he’s in worth watching, and that’s all I need to say.

Now, I titled this review ‘beautiful garbage’. That’s not so much because the film itself is garbage, because it’s not, but rather because the events portrayed in this film are so brutal and merciless that they could only come from a very dark and rotten place. The ‘beautiful’ is directed at the visual effects, because everything ranging from camera techniques to production design to action choreography is so beautifully done, so thrillingly eye-popping that it would almost make you forget that you’re watching people get slaughtered, beat up and maimed. Tons of blood flow, brains are splattered against the wall and yet you can’t take your eyes off that beautifully designed bullet. That awesome tattoo on Angelina Jolie’s hand interlacing with the engravings on her gun. Those mind-blowing car chase scenes. That guy jumping through the glass out of a skyscraper just to finish his “job”… This film is visual effects executed to perfection, elevating said perfection to a whole new level.

It’s all so pretty to watch that it would almost make you able to forgive the writers the overpowering lack of realism. Almost.

The staggering amount of ideas and actions that are 98% of the time either inconsistent, improbable or flat-out impossible would in any other case surely put any screenwriter out of work. With a film like this, it’s literally only the wrapper that makes the candy sweet. It just goes to show that sometimes, making something really, really pretty can make it worth watching, just so long as you’re willing to suspend every inch of disbelief for the sake of watching pretty pictures. Nature, science, biology and every other form of technical factuality is being put to the test here, which is not to say it’s basically just being thrown out the window… But hey, I can promise you you’re going to get to see a guy get in a car the way you’ve never seen before. And a girl get in a train in a fashion that defies every rule of physics… It’s all worth it for a totally cool, put-your-brain-in-stand-by-mode kind of action flick.

Director Timur Bekmambetov has obviously tried his darnedest to make his mark in Hollywood with his first English spoken, big-budget effort, and may I say, he could’ve done a lot worse. Not to mention the fact that he has managed to recruit a few very big names to top the bill, this is definitely a Hollywood debut to be proud of. I can only hope he will continue to work with the same excellent crew in the future, because although only the sound department was nominated for an Oscar, camera and visual effects would have definitely deserved a nod from the Academy too.

In a nutshell, Wanted is an 110 minutes of gorgeous, eye-pleasing nonsense with great action and one very beautiful lady… I for one can’t wait for the sequel.
_(July 2012)_

Review By: DoryDarko

He’s the man alright.

Wanted is loosely based on the comic book miniseries of the same name by Mark Millar. It’s directed by Timur Bekmambetov and stars James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman, Thomas Kretschmann, Common, Terence Stamp and Konstantin Khabensky. The storyline follows Wesley Gibson (McAvoy), a frustrated and downtrodden office worker who discovers that he is the son of a professional assassin when he is saved by Fox (Jolie) from being assassinated himself in a supermarket. Initially he is baffled and out of his depth, but upon meeting the secret “Fraternity” headed by Sloan (Freeman), Gibson starts to undergo training to fulfil his destiny as a “Fraternity” hit-man.

One of the better things about popcorn action movies is when there is a geek coming good and kicking ass. Be it super-heroes or average Joe’s finding something extra, having the rise of the meek get tough at its core is normally a winner. So it is with Wanted, the US directorial debut of Night/Day Watch helmer, Timur Bekmambetov. It’s not so much that McAvoy’s anxiety riddled office worker gets to play guns, sports cars and hang with a lithe Angelina Jolie – it’s that he, courtesy of a good source, gets to not care about the killing. The film may not be as dark as the source material, but the essence of it is there with corruption and violence at the core. The story, as bonkers as it is, is simplified into one that features ancient weavers receiving messages depicting targets to be wiped from the planet for the greater good of humanity. Enter the “Fraternity” in modern times, which in the name of good, goes out slotting said targets. Oh but it’s not just a case of line someone up in a telescope and pull the trigger, this is more fun than that.

For action movies in this decade, Wanted has few peers. From the intense and brutal training regime that Gibson undertakes, to the number of explosive and inventive sequences that flit in and out of the piece, it delivers pulse raising cinema. There’s outrageous car pursuits, car jumps with whirls and crash bangs, speeding trains resplendent with stunts, a train crash sequence that’s as good as anything in popcorn world, and then there’s the bullets. Curving bullets that either smack into each other or do untold damage to the forehead of some unknowing target. That the makers are not aiming for the PG-13 market is an obvious bonus, for it allows them to fully payoff on the fights and blood letting. Even those that come with funny and inventive gimmicks. Bekmambetov is having fun, the nature of the beast is a haven for his fast-cutting and slow-mo dalliances, while the noise that thunders out of the speakers pulls one further into the action.

McAvoy steps up to the action plate with great success, at times charming yet pathetic, at others totally scary, he revels in the chance to carry a movie of such adrenalin fuelled excess. Jolie too comes out with much credit, the role of Fox giving her the chance to shine, unlike Lara Croft, as a charismatic action girl. While Freeman does what Freeman does well, be straight and oddly classy. Not since John Woo’s action berserker Face-Off 11 years previously has the action genre been this much fun and exciting. The pace may not be perfect, and some scenes will be just too ridiculous for some demanding critics (they of course realise the tongue in cheek/nudge in the ribs that’s going on?), but regardless, Wanted has taken the action genre to another level. Lets hope it’s not 11 years till we have to wait for the next bar raiser. 9/10

Review By: John Chard
Top Easy Watching Action Movie
This is a very easy to watch action packed movie. It delved into your imagination and as long as you are not expecting a true to life action drama you should love it. I am not normally struck on the matrix style movies but I really liked this film. The story is not be taken too seriously, just go with the flow of the film and watch the stunts and special effects. Putting Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman in the movie had to be a good move with the box office bucks. But the ace card for this movie in my opinion is James McAvoy who plays the geeky guy who turns into a top assassin. At first I did not recognize James McAvoy from his previous roles like ” The last King of Scotland ” and ‘ Wimbledon “. When I did realize it was the same actor I understood what a fab actor he truly is. He portrays his character with absolute ease. His transition in his role from the start of the movie to his ending character is class. James I am a true fan !! The movie is a good watch if you are into this type of movie.
Review By: andy-1978
Very weak!
Suspend all disbelief. There’s not a single element of realism in this movie & it’s a very sad attempt to try & make a comic into a movie then failing badly as the source material clearly wasn’t strong enough.

I’d normally class Morgan Freeman & Angelina Jolie as a good cast but sadly they’ve got awful roles. The script itself is truly dire, based on a comic I’ve never read or heard of ever.

Basically we’re in a world of superhero assassins where their abilities are right out of The Matrix. The film borrows heavily from things like Bulletproof Monk (I don’t actually think there’s a single original idea in the whole movie) and viewers are expecting to suspend way too much belief.

The film has too much action (yes, you read that right! Too much!) and suffers in the same way Bad Boys 2 did, just having action scenes for the sake of it because there was no plot or script to follow so they’d just engineer an action sequence for no reason at all than seeing the hero or the other assassins use their magical powers.

We’re following Wesley Gibson, a nobody who is dragged into the world of the assassins and trains to become one to kill the man who killed his father. Except thats not the case, the man he kills IS his father and the guy in charge of the assassins (Morgan Freeman in possibly his worst movie role ever) has started to create targets for his own profit.

The film is truly awful, ignore the plot because it’s nonexistent. Enjoy looking at Fox (Angelina Jolie) until she decides to kill herself near the end of the film. Terrance Stamp is woefully underused & his character could have done much more.

If you can ignore the ridiculous special effects, CGI and over the top action sequences then you might get a bit of pleasure from watching this. Personally I hated it and if you’ve seen the trailers then you’ve seen the best bits of the movie as it really doesn’t get any better than the trailer.

Review By: raypdaley182

Other Information:

Original Title Wanted
Release Date 2008-06-19
Release Year 2008

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 50 min (110 min)
Budget 75000000
Revenue 342463063
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Crime, Thriller
Director Timur Bekmambetov
Writer Michael Brandt, Derek Haas, Chris Morgan
Actors Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman
Country United States, Germany
Awards Nominated for 2 Oscars. 4 wins & 25 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Arriflex 235, Panavision Primo Lenses, Arriflex 435, Panavision Primo Lenses, Panavision Panaflex Millennium XL2, Panavision Primo Lenses
Laboratory Astro Color Lab, Chicago (IL), USA, Barrandov Laboratore, Prague, Czech Republic, DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA, EFILM Digital Laboratories, Hollywood (CA), USA (digital intermediate)
Film Length 3,008 m (Sweden), 3,014 m (Russia), 3,037 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision2 500T 5218, Vision3 500T 5219)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Super 35 (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic) (Kodak Vision 2383), D-Cinema

Wanted 2008 123movies
Wanted 2008 123movies
Wanted 2008 123movies
Wanted 2008 123movies
Original title Wanted
TMDb Rating 6.501 6,208 votes

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