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selene_13I went to see Wanted yesterday evening and, my god, it was awful. AWFUL!
Now, I am pretty good with surreal movie plots. I love fantasy. I love super hero movies. I love action/horror benders. I go to all the out-there movies and am able to get sucked into the plot and characters when they’re well done. I am not quick to adore a movie, but not quick to hate either.
McAvoy (whom I like) was completely unsympathetic. Except for a few moments where you sort of relate due to his drudge existence, after about 2 minutes his doormat personality becomes annoyingly whiny. However, once he experiences his “change”, he just becomes an arrogant jerk instead (who is so special, why? Birthright? It’s never explained). His training (a total of six weeks to become the best of all!) basically consists of getting beaten up repeatedly, and he never asks any questions. Why does he care about this father who abandoned him when he was a week old? Why does he want to be an assassin? What does he feel about being chosen? Well, we never know why he cares about anything, because the movie has NO LAYERS. Jolie is only in the movie to function as eye candy. Whenever the camera finds her, she’s striking a (cool, superior) pose. If she said more than 2 sentences in the movie (those on the character’s sobby tragic childhood trauma), then I can’t remember their relevance. Plus, she’s looking so very skinny that it’s almost scary rather than attractive. Morgan Freeman sleepwalks through his exposition (must have been an easy paycheck). Anyone else isn’t worth talking about as they’re fodder. The only person who is remotely interesting is the antagonist, but we never spend time with him or on any development for that matter, as all time is spend on the OMGTHINGSEXPLODECARSFLIPBULLETSFLY action sequences. Well, I guess the CGI was pretty good.
When the story got to the carpet weaving contraption o’ doom, the cinema was not captivated, it was snorting with disbelief. When a whole train with hundreds of innocent people was derailed and destroyed to get to one single bad guy, people were laughing in scorn. By the time a thousand rats with bombs tied to their backs were deployed, the story was just ridiculous beyond belief. Retarded plot lines (everyone shoots to kill Gibson right up to the point where they suddenly stop for exposition, because… there has to be exposition!) and very predictable twists certainly didn’t save the story. There wasn’t a moment when this movie managed to reel me into its world. It’s a constant eye-roller.
Waste. Of. Time. I had to apologise to my friends for dragging them out to see it. Though we had a good laugh out of it, I suppose. The only thing that was good was that we got to see it at discount price.
Now, I am pretty good with surreal movie plots. I love fantasy. I love super hero movies. I love action/horror benders. I go to all the out-there movies and am able to get sucked into the plot and characters when they’re well done. I am not quick to adore a movie, but not quick to hate either.
McAvoy (whom I like) was completely unsympathetic. Except for a few moments where you sort of relate due to his drudge existence, after about 2 minutes his doormat personality becomes annoyingly whiny. However, once he experiences his “change”, he just becomes an arrogant jerk instead (who is so special, why? Birthright? It’s never explained). His training (a total of six weeks to become the best of all!) basically consists of getting beaten up repeatedly, and he never asks any questions. Why does he care about this father who abandoned him when he was a week old? Why does he want to be an assassin? What does he feel about being chosen? Well, we never know why he cares about anything, because the movie has NO LAYERS. Jolie is only in the movie to function as eye candy. Whenever the camera finds her, she’s striking a (cool, superior) pose. If she said more than 2 sentences in the movie (those on the character’s sobby tragic childhood trauma), then I can’t remember their relevance. Plus, she’s looking so very skinny that it’s almost scary rather than attractive. Morgan Freeman sleepwalks through his exposition (must have been an easy paycheck). Anyone else isn’t worth talking about as they’re fodder. The only person who is remotely interesting is the antagonist, but we never spend time with him or on any development for that matter, as all time is spend on the OMGTHINGSEXPLODECARSFLIPBULLETSFLY action sequences. Well, I guess the CGI was pretty good.
When the story got to the carpet weaving contraption o’ doom, the cinema was not captivated, it was snorting with disbelief. When a whole train with hundreds of innocent people was derailed and destroyed to get to one single bad guy, people were laughing in scorn. By the time a thousand rats with bombs tied to their backs were deployed, the story was just ridiculous beyond belief. Retarded plot lines (everyone shoots to kill Gibson right up to the point where they suddenly stop for exposition, because… there has to be exposition!) and very predictable twists certainly didn’t save the story. There wasn’t a moment when this movie managed to reel me into its world. It’s a constant eye-roller.
Waste. Of. Time. I had to apologise to my friends for dragging them out to see it. Though we had a good laugh out of it, I suppose. The only thing that was good was that we got to see it at discount price.
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Date: 2008-09-16 08:04 am (UTC)