Wanted (2008)

Director:

Timur Bekmambetov

Writers (WGA):

Michael Brandt (screenplay) &
Derek Haas (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

27 June 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

Choose your destiny.

Plot:

A frustrated office worker learns that he is the son of a professional assassin, and that he shares his father's superhuman killing abilities.

Plot Keywords:

Revenge | Dead Animal | Bleeding To Death | Cat | Gunsmith

Awards:

1 nomination

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Cast

James McAvoy	...	Wesley Allan Gibson
Morgan Freeman	...	Sloan
Angelina Jolie	...	Fox
Terence Stamp	...	Pekwarsky
Thomas Kretschmann	...	Cross
Common	...	Gunsmith
Kristen Hager	...	Cathy
Marc Warren	...	The Repairman
David O'Hara	...	Mr. X
Konstantin Khabensky	...	The Exterminator
Dato Bakhtadze	...	The Butcher
Chris Pratt	...	Barry
Lorna Scott	...	Janice
Sophiya Haque	...	Puja
Brad Calcaterra	...	Assassin Max Petridge

MPAA:

Rated R for strong bloody violence throughout, pervasive language and some sexuality.

Runtime:

USA:110 min

Country:

USA | Germany

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | DTS | SDDS

Certification:

Netherlands:16 | Canada:18A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) | Philippines:R-13 (MTRCB) | Portugal:M/16 | Australia:MA | South Korea:18 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | Singapore:NC-16 | Canada:13+ (Québec) | Malaysia:18SG | USA:R (certificate #44457) | France:U (with warning) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | South Africa:16 | Finland:K-15 | Ireland:16 | UK:18 | New Zealand:R16 | Hong Kong:IIB

Filming Locations:

Berwyn, Illinois, USA

Company:

Universal Pictures

Trivia:

Screenwriters Michael Brandt and Derek Haas named several of the movie's characters after people from their college alma mater, Baylor University. Robert Darden, the name of Wesley's first target for assassination, is the writing professor in whose class they first met. (They have used the name Darden for the first victim in several other films, as well: 3:10 to Yuma (2007) and 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)). Sloan, the character played by Morgan Freeman, is taken from the university's previous president, who was forced to step down under pressure from faculty and alumni.

Goofs:

At the train station is a door leading to an elevator with a text that says "An elevator with an operator" in Czech but the letters with accents in the word operator are wrong obviously translated on a computer without Central European fonts, which is a common mistake.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Wesley: [voice-over] It's my anorexic boss's birthday. This means there's a certain amount of inter-office pressure to stand around the conference table, eating crappy food and pretending to worship her. Acting for five minutes like Janice doesn't make all our lives miserable is the hardest work I'll do all day. My job title is account manager. I used to be called an account service representative, but a consultant told us we don't even manage our clients, and to not service them. I have a girlfriend who I neither manage or service. That's my best friend Barry fucking her on an Ikea kitchen table I picked up for a really good price. I'm finding it hard to care about anything these days. In fact, the only thing I do care about is the fact that I can't care about anything. Seriously, it worries me. My name is Wesley Gibson. My dad walked out on my mom when I was seven days old. Sometimes I wonder if he ever looked into my baby blue eyes and asked himself "did I just father the most insignificant asshole of the twenty-first century"?

Movie Connections:

Featured in Max on Set: Wanted (2008) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Every Day is Exactly the Same

Worst film ever, definitely in 2008

First off James McAvoy is terrible not only that his fake American accent is cringing, Angelina Jolie is solid as usually but just a pretty face easily could have been replaced by a lesser named actress and achieved the same result (therefore used just to bring in fans). Morgan Freeman is miscast like always since Shawshank. Basically the film is so crap that they narrate every tens minutes to tell you whats going on ( Why when the film is predictable). Storyline is something out of some idiots head, some matrix wannabes who's trying to make the slow-motion action parts so good as to make you forget about the crap storyline and acting. Don't wast your money on this film I couldn't believe what i was seeing when i was in the cinema i thought it was a joke, If it were up to me it would be straight to DVD. Don't trust the people that say its the best film of 2008.