Movie Review: Wanted
I hate the lead role actor in this so much. He was terrible on an “Alexander” level. And that’s a terrible feat to accomplish. If it happens once more in film history, the earth will suck the souls out of all living beings to fill the void of awful directing, casting, and acting.
Angelina Jolie was the single saving grace of this movie. And she is getting older. No she’s not “old” but you can tell, even after make-up and editing, that her skin is turning to leather. Her performance was on par with all of her films(besides Alexander, of course), although not as good as Mr/mrs Smith.
Morgan Freeman apparently didn’t find his character as he didn’t actually act in this movie. After seeing this, I can’t help but think they paid him 2 million to read lines off the teleprompter. The only movement he ever actually did was curving the bullet. Otherwise, he stood there with his hands behind his back the entire fucking time. More proof that he read his lines.
This wasn’t a mindless action movie either. Shit, there’s not even any good action scenes. In fact, the only good scene in the entire damn movie was the 4 frames of Jolie’s ass. Too much fucking slow-mo(an excuse for filming action sequences because your lead’s so untalented he can’t even tape at a semi-normal speed and make it look good), music changes and the movie’s pace were extremely infrequent and often, making the movie’s rhythm jump around so that you walk out thinking the entire thing took 35 minutes.
The plot was dumb and suffered from a serious case of Star Wars mimicry syndrome(which doubtless was a copy itself, knowing George Lucas). Inconsistencies threw me off constantly… He can apparently hit a bullet out of mid air, but can’t hit a large target, in the open, at 100 ft and unloaded an entire clip at a guy from 20 ft away without touching him… Right. And the rats? In the apparent span of 20 seconds, a bunch of rats manage to scale a castle and insert themselves into every crevice. And what, because he released a bunch of rats, everyone stopped shooting? Oh noes, we’re doomed! Add to the fact that his big ass rat plan amounted to jack shit as it didn’t seem to actually kill anyone or destroy anything at all…
I could go on, but I’ll end my review. You get the point.
Writing – 6
Performance – 5
Technical – 6
Overall – 6
