When I went to movies this week, I wanted to get the biggest summer action fix by watching the Incredible Hulk and Wanted, then balance it out with the Oscar worthy WALL-E. Unfortunately for me, I arrived at the cinema to late, missed hulk and was forced to watch this bloated action flick first.

Wanted is based off of a graphic novel by Mark Millar about a guy called "Luke Skywalker", I mean Wesley Gibson played by James McAvoy, who has a "force" that has been giving him panic attacks since as long as he remembers. This force is actually the fact that his heart moves at over 400 beats per minute giving him super human sharpness. This makes him the perfect person to "train in the was of the assassin" and a secret group known as the jedi, scratch that, Fraternity need him to track down the guy that killed his father… who was also an assassin.

Despite the painfully generic, yet acceptable plot the movie doesn't really do much in terms of story. It sucks you in during the first half of the movie with some nice exposition and acting, but spits you out during the other half with it's unbelievably impossible action sequences. The first action sequence involved a guy running and breaking through a paint of glass (under his own strength), flying from the top floor of his building to another building while head shooting 3 hit men pitched atop said building. Then when he lands he is unscaved by both the glass and concrete. Normally I am up for ridiculously outrageous stunts but when you create a universe that have people with NO REASONABLE explanation for their powers, it becomes really hard for me to hold suspension of disbelief. Even if your heart beats faster than a speeding bullet it is unlikely that any human being could jump one city block. What do you think this is, the Matrix? The wind will push you into a wall. In another scene, Angelina Jolie's character re railed a passenger train by crashing a car into it, just to get to the villain. Sometimes, Hollywood can't tell the difference between a cool sequence and a dumb setup. The motto of the fraternity is "kill one, save a thousand", but here they did the EXACT opposite.

I could go on saying how unrealistic and idiotic some parts where but I must say, James McAvoy a good job bringing his character to life. His acting was funny enough to make the audience laugh and the never took the film to seriously (except for when he kissed Angie. God that was corny). Angelina Jolie doesn't say much though. She just does everything she did in Tomb Raider without the sexy British accent. Morgan Freeman on the other hand really didn't care about his role. He has won all his Oscars and played God once, so he is suffering from "I-AM-ABOUT-TO-DIE-SO-LET-ME-DO-SOMETHING-FOR-THE-KIDS" Syndrome, AKA Orson Wells Syndrome.

All-in-all, the movie was fairly faithful to the novel. It had all the shooting and killing it was known for. I am not a fan of the novel, but if you are I recommend you watch it with caution. However if you have watched Star Wars, the Matrix and Desperado and are tired of those movies, I recommend you sit this one out, and watch Original Sin instead.