Wanted

                  Wanted is a movie that came out in 2008. It was based on a miniseries of comic books also called Wanted. Wanted is directed by Timur Bekmambetov and stars James McAvoy. It made about $341 million in the box office.

                This movie is about a normal guy, named Wesley that is taken into a secret group of assassins called the Fraternity. Wesley is told that his father, which he never knew, was one of the best assassins the Fraternity had. He is told that his panic attacks are actually a rare ability that, if trained, can be turned into superhuman strength, speed, and reflexes. Wesley then gets trained by the Fraternity until he can master his power. He is then shown this special loom that gives out the name of a target that they are supposed to kill. These people didn’t necessarily  do anything wrong, however the loom supposedly sees tragedy in the future and killing these people is supposed to stop that from happening.

                Wesley is sent on a mission to kill Cross, the guy who supposedly killed his father. During this mission Cross reveals that he is Wesley’s real father and the only reason Wesley was recruited was because he was the only person Cross would not kill. Wesley also learns that the Fraternity was nothing more than just paid killers after the leader started manufacturing his own targets. Wesley decides to stop the Fraternity from hurting anyone else.

                One of the coolest things about this movie was how the assassins could curve their bullets. They were able to curve them around cover to hit someone that was hiding. They were able to curve them around a pig and hit the target right behind it. One of the best examples of this was when Angelina Jolie curved the bullet around a circular room killing everyone including herself. She did this because she followed the original code of the Fraternity very strictly and she discovered that everyone’s name, including hers, had come up.

                The assassins in this movie are just incredible. They are able to do stuff that doesn’t seem possible. At the beginning of this movie, one assassins leaps from one skyscraper to the next. While he is flying through the air he is able to shoot and kill many enemies that were in the next skyscraper. The assassins are so deadly and so accurate that they are able to shoot the wings off of a fly.

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