The film is just perfectly cast. Aside from McAvoy we have people like Angelina Jolie, who also is awesome in an action role, Morgan Freeman, who plays the intelligent leader guy very well, and a host of other faces you will no doubt recognise from countless other films of this type and otherwise. Usually it doesn't really matter who the cast is as long as it doesn't hurt the movie in any way but the fact that the cast is both great on their own as actors and in their respective roles here is admirable.
The film demands a certain suspension of disbelief from the viewer, and I think this may go into a phrase book as a description of that term at some point in the future, and I think if you don’t employ that mentality you will never be able to enjoy it. You will constantly be thinking, “Oh, come on! No way would that happen!” But I think the audience that goes out to see the film will have absolutely no problem suspending their disbelief and thus Wanted will end up being one of the most exhilarating films of 2008.
Although I think Russian director Timur Bekmambetov’s Night and Day Watch were both a bit overrated, I still admire the creativity, imagination, and fantastic special effects that are on display within. And similar to my apprehensions about it being too ridiculous for its own good, I was sceptical whether or not the director’s over-the-top mentality could work outside of a fantasy setting. Well again, it completely does and more. All the elements taken out of context, such as bullets being bent, people jumping from one building to another and running along a moving train and the like, seem ridiculous and lame. But when you’re in the zone of the film and you have been sucked into the action all of those over-the-top elements just add to the enjoyment and excitement of it all.
The movie promises action and I don’t need to tell you that it delivers in leaps and bounds, sometimes quite literally. Pretty much from start to finish the film is action oriented and even when it stops for a few breaths, before diving back into the deep end, it still leans towards something exciting or nerve wracking in the conversations between the characters. The action sequences are constructed with the help of CGI and a minor criticism would be that you can sometimes clearly tell that it’s fake, but for the most part within the context of the movie everything looks great.
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