Comments on: Wanted Review

By: Mark Millar Talks Wanted 2 - Screen Rant

Mark Millar Talks Wanted 2 - Screen Rant — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:41:55 +0000

[...] those who didn’t find enjoyment in it or at least were disappointed (Screen Rant head honcho Vic Holtreman to name one) and that’s fair [...]

By: Morgan Freeman Seeing ‘Red’ With Bruce Willis - Screen Rant

Morgan Freeman Seeing ‘Red’ With Bruce Willis - Screen Rant — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:42:50 +0000

[...] much full-on action, and he already did the “head of the organization” type bit in Wanted last [...]

By: Ken J

Ken J — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:19:32 +0000

I hope nobody is dumb enough to believe that. And no you don’t need to know anything about firearms. Simple physics will tell you that is ridiculously impossible. But then again, I think he uses his mind to do those things, so it has nothing to do with physics… I think… But if that’s so, why bother swinging the arm at all? Just shoot and curve it right? Why bother shooting at all if he can control objects, he should just sling any object to kill people… I don’t know, makes no sense to me, so I’m not going to try to explain it…

By: the old man

the old man — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:01:05 +0000

Took in double what it cost world wide, so I guess your right. Just hope nobody out there thinks they could do those things with real guns and bullets.

By: Vic Holtreman

Vic Holtreman — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:00:50 +0000

Check my Top 10 Summer Movies post.

Vic

By: Ken J

Ken J — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:16:27 +0000

How did Wanted do in the box office? If it did well enough you can expect a sequel.

By: the old man

the old man — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:49:35 +0000

Guess what they are going to make a sequel! My eyes about popped out of my head reading that one..

By: Ken J

Ken J — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:48:45 +0000

Comes to no surprise to me. I’m an avid shooter so it isn’t too surprising that I did not want to see this movie. I will spend 100% of the time laughing out loud at the stupid things they do with firearms in the film and the general way they handle firearms. But even given that, I tried to watch the trailers while trying to ignore the stupidness with curving bullets in flight and sniping people with a handgun, and the rest of it was still way too stupid looking.

My friend saw it, and told me how he killed the last guy (I don’t care, he knew I wasn’t going to watch it anyhow), and we laughed about it for quite sometime. Jumping cars, handgun sniping, curving bullets, Angelina Jolie, stupid gimmicky poses with firearms… yah, no way I would have enjoyed this movie.

Equilibrium is as crazy as I’m willing to go, but it’s only because that movie did it with style, and Christian Bale handled himself very well. The “style” in this movie is far too gimmicky. I’ve seen far too many movies with bullet time, shooting while flying through the air, etc. etc. And while curving bullets is definitely new, it isn’t cool like the Gun Kata is…

By: The Top 10 Summer 2008 Movies: It’s Been A Hell Of A Run! - Screen Rant

The Top 10 Summer 2008 Movies: It’s Been A Hell Of A Run! - Screen Rant — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:15:11 +0000

[...] to beat underdog summer flick The Incredible Hulk. I guess more people thought it was ridiculous (as I did) than thought it was “awesome, dude!”. However superhero movie fans across the land can [...]

By: the old man

the old man — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:17:20 +0000

Alexius;

We can’t let you off that easy…
We want your defense Are you a Jolie / McAvoy fan or a gun to-tin Texan?

come on, gives the details….

By: Vic Holtreman

Vic Holtreman — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:58:46 +0000

Alexius,

Yeah, I figured this was going to be a “love it or hate it” kind of movie.

Vic

By: alexius

alexius — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:33:24 +0000

Well, as someone here has already pointed out, movies are subjective. I for one liked Wanted very much, even if it seemed to be a rip-off of Matrix. It all depends on tastes in the end, just because some people liked it and some didn’t doesn’t make it a good or a bad movie.

By: First Max Payne Trailer - Screen Rant

First Max Payne Trailer - Screen Rant — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:27:04 +0000

[...] to me, this trailer for the upcoming movie Max Payne, looks pretty cool. Now as I pointed out in my Wanted review, it takes more than “cool” to make a decent movie. Generally Wahlberg brings a lot of [...]

By: Panda

Panda — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:13:07 +0000

The movie is really a poor-man’s Matrix.

On the training of the main character, 6 weeks (or less), I can buy that it didn’t take long for him to learn to use his ‘natural abilities’, but is one of his natural abilities to not be shaken up by death? Understanding it’s your duty or fate is one things, but all-out enjoying it (when weeks before he didn’t even want to shoot at an already-dead corpse)is a little psychotic, and unsettling

By: Panda

Panda — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:33:52 +0000

Man, did the third act fall apart?!? It played more like a video game than a movie or graphic novel.

Something that doesn’t really bother me in most movies bothered me here, is the bystander body count…

***SORTOF SPOILER***
particularly the train.

and all the fate crap took things a little too far.

By: baker2d

baker2d — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:45:09 +0000

I went to see this last night. Its pretty decent, not amazing, but worth the watch. There was some good shoot out scnenes but apart from that I got bored and predicted a large amount of the outcomes.

I knew I should have read this review before hand, but at least it stopped me from working for a good 3 hours.

By: Kahless

Kahless — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:55:14 +0000

I saw it yesterday. I would say it was 3 out of 5. Mostly, I had a problem with the F-bomb being overly used, especially by Freeman (it just didn’t seem right Freeman saying it). I have liked films that use the F-bomb and some of them used it alot, but for this film, it just didn’t work on some of the occassions. I went in expecting law-defying feats but like Vic said, a bullet going through, at least, 4 peoples cranium without loosing momentum? No, doesn’t work. What should have happened in that scene was the person should have fired the same number of bullets as the number of victims.

I thought McAvoy did a good job as the nobody-turned hero-type. I thought they didn’t have to show his best friend having sexual congres with his girlfriend (and definately didn’t have to show it twice). I did like the scene where McAvoy is going through the room shooting up everyone (this was shown in the trailer so it’s not a spoiler) but I won’t devulge how he was able to use more bullets than his gun was able to hold. The way the loom was used I also liked.

By: 790

790 — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:34:22 +0000

Its all subjective like Vic brings up but I love to bash films that I think could be better or that just suck period.

(Hey this isn’t communist china).

Let’s face it ALOT of fans like Wanted and ALOT of fans spit on its grave.
Notice that Iron Man, and Hulk have very few negative remarks, no why? Cause there good movies.
Wanted is a subjective film in that it has problems some overlook them others expect better.

If your a Wanted fan don’t expect 100% of others to agree…

That’s all.

By: Gary

Gary — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:59:55 +0000

Me too 790!
I cant imagine why!

By: 790

790 — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:07:59 +0000

I support non-personal film bashing.
Sometimes its very entertaining to read.