Angelina Jolie's R-rated action thriller Wanted took in $51 million its first weekend at the box-office, making it the #1 June opening for an R-rated film in history, and the 6th-biggest first weekend ever for a movie with that MPAA rating.
As a service to you, his fans, the Crabster hauled himself out to this. Actually, I have to confess...I'm a fan of the director Timur Bekmambetov, who made the insane Russian action movies Night Watch and Day Watch. So I would've seen it anyway. But let's pretend I did it for you.
The movie stars the scrumptious James McAvoy as this incredibly nebbishy office worker who finds out that his father was a member of an ancient society of assassins operating out of a Chicago textile mill. I say "was" because the old man has been bumped off by this other rogue assassin who the weaver/assassins now want dead. So, McAvoy has to fulfill his destiny by joining the assassins and doing in the man who killed his father.
McAvoy's tutor is played by Angelina Jolie in all her hardcore tattooed glory. The problem with Angie here is the same as always...she's too damned impressed with herself and her zen bad-ass minimalism. And she's always got that little I'm so hot smirk playing at the corners of her lips. Thankfully, the movie does not depend on her. It hinges on the director's ability to conceive and stage outlandish action sequences, and weave them through a twisty, wholly unbelievable plot. Bekmambetov is good at that, though the movie lacks the darkly mythic gravitas of his Russian films.
Bekmambetov's trump card is his exuberance. He enjoys his work. He likes jokes but doesn't undermine his own effects by winking at you. His energies are infectious. I hate action movies that give you the feeling of mere application of craft - there needs to be some underlying conviction and Bekmambetov has that. A movie with this much carnage could easily become wearying, but Bekmambetov gets such a kick out of topping himself that you get swept up in it. As nonsense goes, this is top-drawer. And, without spoiling the ending...well, let's just say something happens to Angie that will probably get a cheer out of certain people.
Angelina Blows Up at the Box Office
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Posted by Crabbie at 4:36 PM
Labels: Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy
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9 comments:
I do not know how anyone can stand a Movie with Hemroid Lips in it?! And it's all the Media talks about is Skankalina????!!! uhm... Morgan Freeman is the one who brings a Crowd in not A.J. She is so over rated.
Crabbie the Word-Wizard; this was a spectacular review. Why aren't you living in NY writing movie reviews? (or is this your moonlighting job... ;)
This is the best Wanted review I've read yet.
Richard Roeper loved it. That's reason enough to think it's a shit movie.
I won't see this movie simply because she is in it. I won't give her one red cent of my hard earned money, because she hates America..She won't even have her blobs in this country...
I read the same Reviews as the other Posters here. Most of the Reviews were not good about this Movie. Angelina Jolie is always playing the same Character anyways. yawn. ZZZZzzzzz. Obviously her Loons from Just Jared & Perez showed up. Probably to Matsturbate.
If she gets blown to a million pieces at the end, I'd like to buy it just to replay the ending over and over. I hate that phony bitch. Was perusing a few recent pics of her and Brad. God he looks horrible. She on the other hand is in her narcissistic glory completely oblivious to the wasted person her once vibrant counterpart has become. It's apparent she is the parasite and he is the host.
^^^She's killing definately killing him and two more blobs will only make it worse. If he wasn't trapped before, he's definately trapped now. Maybe he'll get lucky and she'll die in childbirth. Explode like in the movie and the babies will come flying out. Ding, dong the witch will be dead.
No way does this bitch get a dime of my hard earned money. She isn't worth the price of a movie ticket.
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