Quick and dirty review here:

WANTED was a lot better than I expected. I think it’s the first time I’ve enjoyed the movie more than the comic book it was based on. In the comic, WANTED was about Super-villains who banded together, took out all the heroes and secretly ran the world. In the movie, WANTED is about a fraternity of assassins who must kill in order to maintain the greater balance of good and evil in society.

Great action, great plot, great ending. After Iron Man, this is my 2nd favorite movie of the summer.

I know that since the Matrix, anytime action heroes bend the laws of physics you end up rolling your eyes and saying to yourself “seen it.” That didn’t happen this time, even with guys shooting around corners and curving bullets. It worked.

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Thank god this movie dropped the whole super-hero motif of the comic. I think that stuff works in the funnybooks, but it would have translated HORRIBLY on the screen. I also felt that the internal power struggle within the fraternity was better plotted in the movie.

I absolutely loved the idea of a loom of fate guiding the assassins on who to take out to maintain a balance. The code of the Fraternity was created to maintain the objectivity of the loom. They were keepers of the will of fate, after all. And how awesome that the Loom itself knew that power corrupts and sought to cull it’s own enforcers when needed.

I loved the choice that the Fox made at the end of the film. It would have been so easy to have Wesley and her walk into the sunset.

Thank god they didn’t opt for such an ending.