Wanted (DVD)

Wanted is an all-out action film released in the Spring of 2008. The film is rated 18 as it contains a lot of strong violence and language and it runs for approximately 110 minutes. Wanted did incredibly well at the box office grossing an estimated $341,757,247 on a budget of $75,000,000. Despite it's huge box office takings it didn't do so well with the critics and when I saw this movie I could understand the divide between their opinions. Some said that this was unintelligible tripe and others said it was utterly thrilling. I personally agree with the latter and I think it's more interesting when films receive mixed reviews because then it's up to you to make up your ...  Read the complete review

Here's another film I saw recently with a friend. I had never even heard of the film before seeing it, so had no particular expectations. Story In what really is an excellent script, James McAvoy introduces his character, Wesley Gibson and sums up his life story as a complete hopeless case. He has major anxiety issues, and apparently good reason for them too. His job is dull, his boss constantly ridicules and terrorises him, his girlfriend is a bitch and his best friend is screwing her. He has no money and no life and he stands up to no one. It is hard not to feel sorry for him or wonder why he is so pathetic. He sits at work, desperately trying ...  Read the complete review

After having my retinas burned in the last week by the terrible Crank and the ADD style editing of the action in the new 007, I asked myself if I was really ready for a third action driven film. See any trailer or advert for Wanted and you'll get the jist of what it's all about, guns, ammo, matrix style effects and loads of crash bang wallop. Now in the wrong hands, this could have the potential to be a brainless actioner with direction by someone who doesn't know how to handle action. Thankfully Wanted turns out to be a pleasant surprise. Our own James McAvoy crosses the pond to play Wesley Gibson, a young man in a dead end job with a life going ...  Read the complete review

I never seem to get to the cinema lately, so I make sure to hire certain films that I am desperate to see from the library as soon as they are released. 'Wanted' was one of these films, and both my other half and I were really keen to see it as soon as possible, so when I did a shift at the library I quickly grabbed it on my way out! Daddy2harry was rather pleased when I returned home, and we sat down last night hoping for a very exciting watch...and boy did this film deliver! Wesley Gibson is a bored Accounts Manager, working in a job he hates, with people he hates, and he is sick of life. But things are about to take a rather exciting turn for Wesley when he ...  Read the complete review

Wesley Allan Gibson is stuck in a dead end office job (is there any other type??), his irritating girlfriend is cheating on him with his even more irritating best mate, and he is destined to be stuck in his mundane life forever. That is until he meets Fox, who informs him his estranged father, one of the best assassins to ever live, has just been killed, and that Wesley has inherited traits from his father that enable him to learn to be a great assassin. He is taken in by the Fraternity and trained up to make the most of his natural abilities, and follow in his father's footsteps, hoping to avenge his father's death and kill his father's killer. It all sounds ...  Read the complete review