Wanted (Limited Edition Collector's Gift Set) [Blu-ray] | ![Wanted (Limited Edition Collector's Gift Set) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41YZwkYxE5L._SL500_.jpg) | Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Actors: Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Terence Stamp, Thomas Kretschmann
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  367 reviews
Sales Rank: 48956
Format: AC-3, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Limited Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 110 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.9 x 2
MPN: MCABR61107335
UPC: 025192005114
EAN: 0025192005114
ASIN: B001GKJ2DE
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: December 2, 2008
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Product Description
Genre: Action/Adventure
Rating: R
Release Date: 2-DEC-2008
Media Type: Blu-Ray
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As the impresario behind gravity-defying Russian blockbuster Night Watch, it's inevitable that Hollywood would come calling for Timur Bekmambetov. With a studio budget and an international cast, including two Oscar winners, Timur cooks up a Hong Kong-styled actioner bursting with fast cars and big guns. Our unlikely hero is mild-mannered Chicago accountant Wesley Gibson (Atonement's James McAvoy), whose father died when he was a tot. Wesley never learned to stand up for himself, and his girlfriend, boss, and best buddy all take advantage until the seductive Fox (Angelina Jolie) rescues him from a sharpshooter named Cross (The Pianist’s Thomas Kretschmann). After which, she whisks him away to a mansion on the edge of town to meet the other members of the Fraternity, where leader Sloan (Morgan Freeman) informs Wesley that Cross, a rogue agent, executed his father. Sloan believes Wesley has the goods to take him out, so he undergoes the Fraternity's brutal training regimen (Marc Warren and Common dish up some of the abuse). When he's ready, Sloan sends him out to fulfill his duty, but matters become complicated when Wesley finds out someone isn't telling the truth, leading our former milquetoast to exact an elaborate revenge. For those who've been following McAvoy's career to date, Wanted will surely come as a surprise. In adapting Mark Millar's comic series, Timur offers buckets of blood and a smidgen of depth, but fans of The Matrix and Mr. and Mrs. Smith will want to give this one a look. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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 Brainless escapism.....not that there's anything wrong with that... March 17, 2010
H. Jin (Melbourne, Australia)
It's interesting reading some of the comments below complaining about this movie being too over-the-top. 'Wanted' is (loosely) based on a series of comic books, so if you're complaining that bullets going around corners and heroes surviving hundred metre falls is not "realistic"....you're kind of missing the point. This is pure, brainless escapism. Turn off your brain for two hours, sit back, and enjoy the eye candy. It's that kind of movie.
'Wanted' shamelessly pinches ideas from a variety of other movies. The first act is very reminiscent of 'Fight Club' (worthless corporate drone seeing no meaning to his life), and the CGI obviously owes a huge debt to 'The Matrix' and its clones. The physics-defying stunts and special effects ape everything from 'Transporter' to 'Gone In 60 Seconds'. Although I must admit that making the Fraternity descendents of weavers, who get their orders from codes embedded in a textile loom, is..um...different.
The cast is a mixed bag; James McAvoy really nails it as the depressed office worker, but as a ruthless assassin he's a bit underwhelming. Angelina Jolie does a good job in a role that doesn't take her out of second gear, and Morgan Freeman does the father-figure thing just like Morgan always does. Everyone else is simply a cannon-fodder or gun-for-hire stock character, although Thomas Kretschmann as Cross could have been interesting had he been given more screen time. Don't worry too much about the plot; it's predictable, with several "twists" and character revelations that are easily anticipated. This is the sort of movie where every line of dialogue is a distraction from the flashy eye-candy.
The eye-candy itself is good, though. Extensive use of slo-mo and bullet-cam effects, cars doing triple flips and driving on as if nothing happened, trains falling off bridges, assassins shooting through ten people at once...it's all here. And it all works. If you're in the right mood.
It's not really a movie I'd recommend as such, and it's certainly not an artistic masterpiece. But if you're just after a big dumb action movie, you can do alot worse than 'Wanted'.
 Way over the top March 14, 2010
Frank J. Perricone (People's Republic of Vermont)
I won't try to sum up the movie itself because by now you'll probably either already love or hate it, and if you don't, there are plenty of better reviews of the movie than anything I could write. Suffice to say it's way over the top, but full of some delightfully original ideas that it's able to embrace because it doesn't feel it has to stay in conventional storytelling or realism. Sit back and enjoy the ride.
What's more important to you here is how good the Blu-ray master is, and it's awesome. The sound is particularly rich. It doesn't rumble my subwoofer a lot, but it does when it needs to. What it does do is use surround to put me in the action, and really extend the sweeping camera pans and coming-from-behind action. You don't just see the bullets curve, you hear them curve, as they wend their way through the three-dimensional space of surround sound. The video is perfectly crisp, with a good balance of lightness and dark; the film's natural tendency towards more monochrome means it's probably not what you'd pull out to show off your new 62" HDTV, but it's still something that will make great use of that TV. It's as close as you're going to get at home to what it was like to see it in the theater.
I wanted more! March 4, 2010
Carlos Donoso Kronfle (Miami, Florida)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
`Wanted' was one of those action movies at the time of its release in theaters that people looked forward to. It looked promising and had a fine cast. The results were disappointing.
If it wasn't for Angelina Jolie, this movie would have gotten a 2 star review from my part. The whole plot was very silly and obviously the action sequences a little hard to believe. The movie does have its interested moments; Angelina walking out of a Jacuzzi butt naked and some action scenes that were very well made. But besides all that it was a let down, expecting a further deliberation of a film instead of a flick that at moments looked like a kid had genuinely written the script.
I rented `Wanted' on blu-ray when it came out and if you're into movies simply for the quality on your screen then I highly propose for you to get this one. Check out Angelina's scene walking out of the hot tub in slow motion. Extraordinary!
 Ridiculous February 24, 2010
I was like 'whoa'... (NY, NY)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you are one of those people that can tolerate even a little ridiculousness in your movies, this is still not for you. Between bullets knocking each other out of the air, flipping Dodge Vipers, and other assorted nonsense, this movie goes from action to impossible to ridiculous to silly to plain sad (the last three are unintended). There is escapism, and there is stupid: this movie is stupid.
Disgusting February 5, 2010
Patricia Stout (Lake Ariel, PA, USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was the biggest disappointment and a total waste of money. Foul language, sex, weird story line, I found it to be disgusting. The one plus I could give it would be that the graphics are fascinating.
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