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Posted: July 13th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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    The worst thing a movie can do is insult the intelligence of its audience. Wanted is guilty of this, and it’s tragic because the movie had so much potential to be so much more. I would describe the rough plot, but that takes about one sentence: cubicle rat finds out he is super-assassin for secret society, and his father was killed by a rogue assassin. It doesn’t get much more elaborate at any stage of the movie.

To be fair, this movie did take action shoot-em-up movies and raise the bar for the action sequences. The director watched the Matrix trilogy, and made several action scenes 10% better. He then did the same thing for Equilibrium, and then mashed in the modern teenage nihilism of Fight Club (as well as the bloody fight scenes), and ramped that up by about 10% as well. It picked some very good source material, and improved upon it. Read more »

Posted: July 5th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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