Rosie
Phoenix’s film review
WANTED
WANTED
stars wimpy panic-attack suffering norm, Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy)
Whom has a cheating girlfriend and is humiliated by his boss, has a
life turn around as he’s approached by Fox(Angelina Jolie) – a
member of the Fraternity on account of the death of his father.
Wesley is trained by Fox to avenge the death of his father whilst
ending other people’s lives. He’s beginning to control his own.
Fans
of James McAvoy will be pleased with his performance of realistic
sand believable Wesley Gibson as it’s a real change of character
from Mr Tumnus in The Chronicles of Narnia. Fans of Angelina Jolie
will be more than happy so see her as a gun-shooting somewhat heroine
again. Whilst being a mysterious assassin society member. As well as
Fox, the members of the Fraternity are mysterious and as you grow to
learn more about Wesley, you don’t learn much about the Fraternity
and the Fraternity leader Sloan (Morgan Freeman)
The start of the film is
humorous as a scene at the traffic lights as Fox looks out the car
window of a battered red Viper at a drier of another car the driver
smiles at Fox and Fox drives off to the music ‘Pina Colada.’
Humour is a light trait in the film as it gradually becomes strongly
violent and not exactly unsettling but the odd way of training a new
member into the Fraternity is certainly a gruesome and violent one,
but is entertaining to watch. As the film is seemingly towards its
end, be aware to feeling a few pangs of sadness at the ending as an
unsuspecting revelation, multiple murder and suicide is played out at
the finale it gives the viewer a real rollercoaster ride of feelings
and scenes to mull over after watching.
Especially
as you have empathy towards the characters, as I sure did as Fox is a
brilliant, mysterious survivor with an ever mysterious past is the
only female in the team at the Fraternity. Whereas the character Fox
is the character for us ladies to admire and adore, Wesley is also
credible for feeling empathy towards as he’s out hero of the film
as we see him go from wimp to superhero.
All
in a beautiful setting as the Fraternity scenes were filmed in
Prague, Czech Republic, which is made to look like Chicago in a
building in Prague which was already the Director’s & co’s
idea of what the fraternity would look like. With only a few changes
to the set, windows, painting the bricks to look like Chicago brick.
They got seven interior and one external set out of one building
which is really useful.
With
the added bonus of sound bites of rock music- ‘The Little Things’
by Danny Elfman is a memorable one. Also the instrumental music with
themes for certain characters adds persona, excitement and
intensifies the scenes and more importantly the film.
As
the finale is a shocker, it gives us something of a moral as after a
brilliant execution, Wesley looks directly into the camera and asks-
“What have you done lately?”
So
if you like thrilling, action-packed movies with James McAvoy, Morgan
Freeman or Angelina Jolie, this is a film for you!
FILM
REVIEW-
WANTED
JAMES
MCAVOY
ANGELINA
JOLIE
MORGAN
FREEMAN
TERANCE
STAMP
THOMAS
KRETSCGMANN
COMMON
BY
ROSIE PHOENIX
