Wanted
Wanted brings us up to speed (and the speed is furious!) with a millennium old group of assassins called “The Fraternity” whose members do their jobs without question and whose roots are literally a fabrication as the originators were fabric weavers. Initially we’re introduced to the unsuspecting next generation of these kinsmen who doesn’t seem all that dangerous as he has trouble killing an hour much less a human target. James McAvoy is Wesley Gibson, an anxious office cubicle drone whose girlfriend is hooking up with his best friend while he’s at work enduring humiliation from his obese and sadistic boss. This changes when Fox (Angelina Jolie), a member of The Fraternity tracks him down to inform him that his father has been murdered and that Wesley is next. Immediately the air is thick with bullets and one wild ride later Wesley is face to face with Sloan (Morgan Freeman) who gives him the Coles Notes version of The Fraternity and says that Wesley’s high anxiety attacks are actually his inherited powers that can be channelled to turn him into a killing machine. Initially reluctant Wesley soon embraces the idea hoping to avenge his father only to find that the training sessions are abrasive to say the least and when he finally masters his craft there are always more pressing assignments than putting a hit on dad’s killer. The relentless action, eye popping effects and a story line that goes as sideways as the bullets that Wesley learns to bend like Becham make Wanted a move that won’t leave adrenalin hounds wonting.