I don’t often believe I’m entitled to getting my money back but after seeing Wanted with a friend a few hours I am reconsidering my position. And in case you think I’m just complaining over nothing let me assure you I have a reason why I didn’t like the movie. A great reason in fact. It sucked.

Truly it did. Lots of movies are bad, but this one was horrible. Let me give you a brief synopsis of this film. I know it might be hard to follow, but try to keep up. You’ll need this information before it is all said and done. Ready?

• Blood
• Special effects
• Cursing

There you have it, that was the totality of Wanted. What I wanted was an original idea. Barring that I was hoping for something that wasn’t a blatant rip-off. Matrix anyone? What I really wanted was to see a few of these assassins storm the gates of the clowns who made this movie and ply their trade on them.

What about the plot twist? Oh, you mean the one that you could see coming 10 minutes into the movie? Yeah great job! I’m tempted to tell you what it was but then that would totally ruin the movie. Not that it isn’t already totally ruined, but at least by me not telling you the movie will have something going for it for about 5 or 10 minutes. To give you an idea of how incredibly atrocious this movie is consider this sad fact. Even Morgan Freeman couldn’t save it.

But remember if the totality of your critical thinking when it comes to moves is blood, special effects, and cursing (heaping helpings of all three) then you’ll be perfectly content. As for me Wanted left me “wanting”…

My money and two hours of my life back. This movie was so bad I was even mad at the kid selling the popcorn.

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