Wanted
Just saw this movie with Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman on video. Apparently it’s based on a comic book, though I have never seen it. It starts out pretty amazing as a cross between the Matrix, the Fast and the Furious and the Office. Yes, the Office. It is so insane and almost entirely filmed around my current client’s office. Tons of awesome Chicago case scenes. Unfortunately it quickly devolves into Fight Club, with excessive violence and your standard male pop-psych. (Dude has to lose himself to find himself et al.) I’m always interested to find out what makes violence a rollicking good time or queazy cringe worthy material. This one definitely fell into the latter category.
The thing that disturbs me the most though, is that throughout the entire movie I was able to predict every next thing that was going to happen. With the exception of the final plot twist. (Which, now that I think about it, comes from Star Wars) In fact the entire second to final fight scene is straight out of Star Wars III.
Still… people using cars to fly and shoot bullets around corners. How cool is that?