In keeping with my recent plan to post more, here's a flash movie review:
"Wanted" (2008)
The idea in intriguing: an office worker who has stopped caring about the trivial (and not so trivial) details of his life learns that his father was a top assassin and he inherited his father’s heightened abilities. However, the film itself seems torn between wanting to explore deep ideas of identity, fate, destiny, and the corruption of power on one hand; and fancy explosions, beautiful fight sequences, and impressive special effects on the other. As a result, the film suffers. It ends up catering to a visual audience at the expense of a plot driven audience. As a fan who enjoys and appreciates both aspects of films, I have to say that the special effects in “Wanted” far outweigh the plot. Which is unfortunate because the idea of the plot is so intriguing and there are so many more things a film, novel, or graphic novel could do with an idea like this one.
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