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Post #1433659

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Vultural
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A few reviews . . (film or TV)
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1-Jun-2021, 12:52 PM

Wanted - 2008 - 5/10

Stale actioner based on comic book.
James McAvoy, with support from bit players like Terence Stamp, Morgan Freeman, and Angelina Jolie, plays office drone sucked into shadowy group called The Fraternity.
Group of assassins who have been operating for a thousand years, selecting kill targets based on the thread pattern from a weaving loom.
If elements sounds vaguely like The Matrix, brace yourself for an overload of “bullet time.”
Main character scuttles and whines throughout, many sequences were preposterous ( rats & wristwatches ), plot about as original as a stale taco.
Director Bekmambetov helmed Russian Night Watch, Day Watch, and Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
Cheese over excellence, though creative at points, when not derivative.