Wanted Hits The Target
Wanted could easily inspire an office shooting. Ayo! Scott means that as a compliment—not that he promotes that sort of thing (unless your boss is the type of asshole to keep you late on a Friday).
Based loosely on Mark Millar and J.G. Jones’s comic series, Wanted tells the story of cubicle-bound schmuck Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy), who hates himself because he constantly takes shit from everyone in his life and does nothing about it. Then he meets Fox (Angelina Jolie), a sexy, gun-toting assassin who introduces him to a secret society of shooters that his estranged father once belonged to. Soon he realizes he’s a born killer and escapes his old life as a professional pussy to pop off shots like Peter North.
As summer blockbusters go, Wanted hits the target with bare-assed Angelina and a visual redefinition of busting off on someone’s dome. It also pulls some conspicuous jack moves on Fight Club and The Matrix, but hey, you could steal from much shittier movies (and it’s not like the comic, which stole Eminem and Halle Berry’s likenesses was theft-free). The message here is just as important as it was the first couple times around: No matter how low you are, a gun can always make things better. So grab yourself a hand cannon and have yourself a blast. Check out the trailer and Complex’s three-minute reenactment after the jump.
