Jolie hits the mark in ‘Wanted’
- Filed under: Alternative Lifestyle, Celebrities, Famous, Fendi
- Date: Jun 28,2008
Cheekbones, eye shadow, tattoos and lips — that’s the essence of Angelina Jolie.
And guns. At least, that’s what the skinny action heroine amounts to in “Wanted,” a nervy, stylish and deeply silly movie about a clan of assassins training its newest recruit.
James McAvoy is that recruit, a downtrodden Chicago cubicle drone who suffers from anxiety attacks and apologizes for everything. Until, that is, “Fox” (Jolie, natch) shows up and “rescues” him from his dull life of victimhood, shows him “your long-awaited destiny to join us” and teaches him to use “the weapons of fate.”
In lesser hands, this amoral shoot-’em-up might have been as goofy as those portentous, pretentious pronouncements from the leader of the Fraternity, Morgan Freeman. But with two Oscar-winners finessing the most ludicrous lines and the Kazakh cult hero Timur Bekmambetov (the Russian vampire movies “Night Watch” and “Day Watch”) directing, shooting and editing this into a too-cool, too-manic seizure-inducing blur, “Wanted” hurtles past our eyes and ears too fast to register as much more than a video game.
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