Wanted

Theatrical Release Date: 2008 06 27 (USA)

UPC: 025195051354

Studio: Universal Studios

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Graphic Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations]

Summary: Night Watch director Timur Bekmambetov helms his first English-language feature film with this big-screen adaptation of Mark Millar's action-packed graphic novel. Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) is a cube-dwelling hypochondriac whose uneventful life has become a mundane blur of terminal boredom. Repeatedly humiliated by his boss and constantly cuckolded by his cheating girlfriend, weakling Wes seems to be living right down to everyone's expectations that he would never amount to anything in life. However, upon discovering that the father he never knew has been brutally murdered, the spineless, clock-punching pushover is recruited into a secret society of assassins known as the Fraternity. During the course of his training, the man who was once an office-bound wimp develops lightning-fast reflexes and superhuman dexterity courtesy of his skilled mentor Fox (Angelina Jolie). Upon completing his training, Wes is assigned the task of dealing out death to the mythological Fates, who possess the ability to alter the lifelines of mortal men. It isn't long before the nebbish nerd-turned-agile assassin is erasing the bad guys with surprising efficiency, yet as Wes begins to carry the mantle passed down to him by his father, he gradually begins to suspect that his wise tutors are not the crime-fighting enforcers they present themselves to be. Now, with everything he ever wanted in life finally within his grasp, Wes is about to find out that the only thing more difficult than ending the lives of others is summoning the courage to take control of his own. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Category: Action

Awards: Film Presented – Los Angeles Film Festival Best Action Movie – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Sound Mixing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound Mixing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound Editing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound Mixing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Features: Alternate opening
Assassin profiles
Picture in picture
Stunts on the L Train
Special effects: The art of the impossible
Groundbreaking visual effects: From imagination to execution
The origins of Wanted: Bringing the graphic novel to life
Extended scenes

Wanted

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 12/02/2008

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Cinemascope

Audio: DTS Digital Theater Systems

Runtime: 110 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,Spanish,French

Subtitles: Spanish,French

Derek Armstrong

Timur Bekmambetov made an astoundingly original vampire movie, Night Watch, in his native Russia, then an underwhelming sequel, Day Watch, that couldn't build on the first. Continuing that trend for his English-language debut, he's filmed a totally standard addition to the gravy train of summer blockbusters, albeit one with a certain visual flair. Wanted wants to be The Matrix like no other Matrix knockoff. Not only is James McAvoy's Wesley Gibson the same kind of office drone as Keanu Reeves' Thomas Anderson, but the two might work in the very same office, and the drudgery of Wesley's daily existence is bludgeoned into us via Nine Inch Nails' "Every Day Is Exactly the Same," a typically on-the-nose choice. While the Wachowskis made "bullet time" famous in The Matrix, Bekmambetov takes this the next logical step, allowing his characters to curve the flight path of their bullets. Wanted shares the obnoxious quality of a film like Shoot 'Em Up, whose sole purpose was to gather every remaining gunplay gimmick a person might dream up. Bekmambetov takes that one step further by also tackling every unexploited car stunt, with cartoonish results. But perhaps the silliest thing about Wanted is a different matrix -- the matrix of threads that propels the plot. The targets for assassination are selected by deciphering a code from the weavings of a giant loom -- you read that right, a giant loom. Morgan Freeman should be embarrassed to be the decipherer. The group's motto is "kill one, save a thousand," but what about the thousand who unceremoniously die in a train wreck set piece midway through? They're never spoken of. As for Angelina Jolie, the main reason many people will see this film, she's sufficiently badass, but that's it. Her character never develops one iota, which says a lot about Wanted. ~ Derek Armstrong, All Movie Guide

Cast and Crew: Gary Barber  Executive Producer 
Roger Birnbaum  Executive Producer 
Danny Elfman  Composer (Music Score) 
Iain Smith  Producer 
Timur Bekmambetov  Director 
Marc E. Platt  Producer 
Michael Brandt  Screenwriter 
Jim Lemley  Producer 
Derek Haas  Screenwriter 
Chris Morgan  Screenwriter 
Marc Silvestri  Executive Producer 
Adam Siegel  Executive Producer 
Jason Netter  Producer 
James McAvoy  Actor 
Morgan Freeman  Actor 
Angelina Jolie  Actor 
Terence Stamp  Actor 
Thomas Kretschmann  Actor 
Common  Actor 
Kristen Hager  Actor 
Marc Warren  Actor 
David Patrick O'Hara  Actor 
Konstantin Khabensky  Actor 
Dato Bakhtadze  Actor 
Chris Pratt  Actor 
Lorna Scott  Actor 

Country: Russia,USA