Wednesday, August 27, 2008

WANTED

Wanted is a 2008 action film with the first half loosely based on the comic book miniseries of the same name by Mark Millar. A young man named Wesley Gibson works at a dead-end job with an overbearing boss. His live-in girlfriend is sleeping with his best friend. He speaks of how his father left when he was just one week old. He wonders if maybe when he was born he looked into his eyes and saw a failure.Elsewhere, a man called "Mr. X" meets with a ballistics expert to find out who made a particular bulletfor a "competitor". Suddenly, a sniper shoots the ballistics expert in the head from a nearby building. Mr. X leaps through the windowand shoots his opponents in mid-flight, killing them. He lands on the building and begins talking to a man on a cell phone, unaware that he is standing on a marked spot. He notices it as the man, named Cross fires a multi-stage bullet from across town, killing Mr. X by going through the back of his head and out through his forehead.
CAST
James McAvoy ...... Wesley Gibson
Morgan Freeman ...... Sloan
Angelina Jolie ...... Fox
Thomas Kretschmann ...... Cross
Konstantin Khabensky ...... The Exterminator
Marc Warren ...... The Repairman
Dato Bakhtadze ...... The Butcher
Terence Stamp ...... Pekwarsky
David O'Hara ...... Mr. X

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