Wanted

Rated R for language, violence, sexuality, nudity

Starring James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman, Terence Stamp, Common

Wesley Gibson (McAvoy) works in small cubicle in an office, a la Office Space. He hates his job as his boss regularly abuses and humiliates him from of his coworkers, and his best friend is banging his girlfriend behind his back. While filling his a prescription at the grocery store, he meets Fox (Jolie) and gets caught in the middle of a shootout between her and a man sent to assassinate Wesley. Turns out, Wesley's father, who left him and his mother when he was just a baby, was a great assassin who was recently killed and Wesley just inherited his insane fortune. He is brought into the Fraternity his father was a part of, headed up by Sloan (Freeman) in order to help gun down his father's murderer by the rogue member Cross. During his training, Wesley is reborn and begins to take charge of his life, making something of it.

This movie is very loosely adapted from the graphic novel. While the plot starts out the same, the end result is somewhat different. In the comic, rather than a Fraternity of assassins, they're actually a Fraternity of Super Villians, living in a world void of Super Heroes since the 1980s. In the graphic novel, some of the villains and their gimmicks are amusing. Also of note, in the graphic novels, Fox was modeled after Halle Berry, while Wesley was modeled after Eminem.

If they had stuck closer to the graphic novel, it would have made for a much much cooler movie, as it's not often we have films about super villians, although if you haven't read any of the graphic novel, you'd probably say it was a really good action flick. I'll admit, it was clever and entertaining!