“Wanted”… get real

by Justin Renigar

When it comes to movies, people are thirsty for action; it’s just human nature. I love a good action movie as much as anyone else, which “Wanted” was, but it was just so ridiculously far-fetched it made me laugh more than anything. Not one thing in that movie could ever possibly happen.

The first thing I’ll talk down about in this movie, what supposedly makes it “cool”, is the curving bullet. It wouldn’t be so bad if only one person had the power to do it. That’s very movie-friendly. The fact that anyone can learn how to do it, like it would be something easy to do, got to me. A bullet moves so fast, with so much force, that it would take a lot more than a flick of the wrist to make it curve like that. The part that bothered me the most was toward the end when the assassins are ordered to kill James McAvoy, and Angelina Jolie pops a round off and it goes in a perfect circle, that all five assassins just happened to be standing in, and the single bullet goes around the whole circle killing them all. Then Angelina steps in the circle and the bullet goes through her head too. I know it’s just a movie and you’re supposed to just go along with stuff like that, but I just couldn’t go along with this one.

Next are all of the impossible car stunts they pull off in that movie. First, when Angelina is trying to save James McAvoy and she pulls a 360 and half way into it she opens the door, scoops him up, and keeps on going. Yeah, right! In all reality, the side skirts would have taken his knees, out causing him to fall under the car and become one with the pavement. The next is McAvoy’s first assassin attempt where he and Angelina are in two separate cars. They are heading toward each other headfirst and McAvoy hits his breaks, making his front end rise a little bit and hits Angelina’s car. This causes him to barrel-roll about eight feet in the air, and while he is above his target, shoots him through the sunroof. Once again, if reality existed in this movie they would have had a head-on collision, causing both of their deaths, seeing as how they both had their cars floored.

If you are a fan of this movie, I can understand. Even though everything was way out of proportion with reality, the movie had a good plot, good actors, and some stunts were pretty cool. My favorite scene is where McAvoy flips out on the fat lady with the stapler and then smashes a keyboard across his best friends face for committing adultery with his girlfriend. I’m not really saying that it was a bad movie. Just a little too much for me.