Based upon Mark Millar's explosive graphic novel series and helmet by stunning visualist director Timur Beckmambetov-creator of the most successful Russian film franchise in history the Night Watch series-Wanted tells the tale of one apathetic nobody's transformation into an unparalleled enforcer of justice. In 2008, the world will be introduced to a hero for a new generation.
The use of space in the bunjee-jumping-inside fight scene is masterful-all three dimensions are used in a clever way. But I only worked this out after wards. It was the choreographer's work that was masterful; the idiots who filmed and edited it did their darndest to make it choppy, innocent, and unexciting. As if that weren't enough, someone-it may have been the composer, it may have been the director-thought that the action scenes would be best accompanied by a tuneless, relentless, jackhammer techno beat.
It is Shahrukh Khan who lights up your life with his superb performance even though Aditya Chopra makes a mess of the heart-winning love story with an overdose of weepy meldrama in the second half of Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. Friends! The director who made arguably the best Bollywood love story of the 90s ( Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge) returs a slightly evolved filmmaker with relistic sensibilities that reek of Shimit Amin's style in Chak De India, but not without the baggage of weepy sentimentality that has by now become actors.
Julia Russel ( Angelina Jolie) can show a man passion unlike any he's ever known. He'll risk everything to be near her. When Luis (Antonio Banders) takes Julia as his life is complete. But people aren't always who they seem, and ui's life begins to unravel. When Julia disappears with his money, Luis is forced to look into Julia's past- a past that doesn't seem to exist- and finds that the woman he loves is accused a brutal murder. Sex and love turn to rage and revenge, and Luis sets off to find his wife.
