Wanted: Curve The Bullet

Universal Pictures

Official Site: WantedMovie.com
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Writer(s): Michael Brandt, and Derek Haas
Producers(s): Jim Lemley, Jason Netter, Marc E. Platt, and Iain Smith.
Starring: James McAvoy as Wesley Gibson, Morgan Freeman as Sloan, Angelina Jolie as Fox, Terrance Stamp as Pekwarsky, Thomas Kretschmann as Cross, and Common as Gunsmith(IMDb).
Rated-R.

Wesly Gibson is an account manager who hates his life, and one day while buying a prescription for his anxiety attacks, a woman named Fox stands next to him, and tells him that she knew his father as a great assassin. After telling Wesley about her knowledge of his father's work, she ends up saving Wesley from the same assassin who tried to kill his father, and afterward Wesley's life changed; he joined a secret society of assassins, "The Fraternity", who trained him with the aim of killing the same rogue assassin who shot his father, or so it seems. 

This film definitely delivered on its promises; there was plenty of mind blowing action that made you say " cool". As a very stylish action film, what movie goers witnessed are semi-plausible stunts that could perhaps happen, but highly unlikely, but none the less the action scenes were officially off the charts. For example, the train scene was incredible. This is a scene that has to be viewed on the big screen to truly appreciate its scope, and catastrophe.

The story was interesting. Perhaps the most interesting part of this story was how The Fraternity chose who they planned on assassinating. It was a fate based procedure that made me wonder about the validity of the procedure. Me and Wesley Gibson shared something in common because the procedure concerned him as well. There was a dichotomy in this film; The Fraternity operated on fate, but Wesley ultimately learned to gain control of his life.

From another perspective, both Wesley and The Fraternity decided that people are in control of their lives and fate is just a passive unknown, but one could also argue that it's fate that people gain control of their lives, but that argument suggests that it's fate that determines how people control their lives, but if people are in control of their lives, how can it be fate ? The argument of fate versus existentialism seems to have no end, so let us move on. Metacritic.com indicates this film received generally good reviews, and Rottentomatoes.com indicates the film earned 100 fresh tomatoes to 34 rotten ones thus far. This was a great action film, and I will grade it a B+. Stay Tuned Movieporium.blogspot.com.