Heathen who only saw the movie here. I was really quite disappointed. I was expecting a really dumb action movie consisting of nothing but a 90 minute beautifully choreographed fight scene, with some witty bits or interesting bits, or preferably both, and not too much emotional crap about anything. I saw the movie. It had no really exceptional fights (movie gunfights don’t do that much for me. I like my fistfights, thanks) and it had only one great moment, the “Fuck You” keyboard, which was, admittedly, pretty damn funny. However, it was so much less than I had hoped. It had the formula that made the Matrix work (A cool but dubious idea allowing for awesome fights, a good-looking star who can’t act for shit, a very high budget.) However, Wanted screwed it up. How do you screw up Angelina Jolie and a lot of slow-motion gunfights? You make an Angelina Jolie movie (of which I never want to see another) instead of a slow-motion gunfight movie (which I will watch over and over.) How do you fuck that up? How?

[The Matrix trilogy, and possibly Kill Bill Vol 1, are the only really good action movies ever made IMHO. The rest, while some are perfectly good, just don’t live up.]