wanted

July 2nd, 2008

My wife and I went and saw “Wanted” last night with some friends. I and my had read the graphic novel the movie was based on. My had not but as I enjoyed it so much I had shared much of it with her.

The only thing resembling the graphic novel about this movie was the names of the characters. Which turned out to be ok. The movie was good but don’t expect it to follow the graphic novel at all. If you’ve read the graphic novel then you would have noticed that the 2 main characters “Fox” and “Wesley” were drawn in a way that Fox looked like Halle Berry and Wesley looked like Eminem. After reading the novel I thought that they would be perfectly cast in those rolls and was looking forward to the movie.

The movie is here and they were not cast for the parts which is too bad but Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy did a great job with the parts they were given. I think they did a very good job for what the story had been turned into. This was a great action movie with some very cool scenes and good acting. I don’t have any complaints other than my disappointment in how the story was changed.

I do think someone should redo the movie following the story line of the novel and using Halle and Eminem as the lead roles. It would be super sweet.

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