Wanted sucked rocks. Here’s a list of the good:
- Set pieces: the skyscraper assassination, the sunroof bit, the keyboard across the face.
- Angelina Jolie’s performance, which was surprisingly nuanced and subtle, especially at the end.
- The Russian thriller-verging-on-horror aesthetic: the knife fight in the denoument.
- Timur Bekmambetov bringing in his Russian homeboy Konstantin Khabensky to play a supporting role.
- Curving bullets.
And the bad:
- That’s not a plot, Timur.
- That’s not an American accent, Wesley.
- Blurred choppy confusing action sequences. And I like fast cuts.
- Misogyny to beat the band, lovingly preserved from the original comic.
- No wasting Terrence Stamp, please.
- What the hell? The rat bit? That makes no sense.
- Come to think of it, the weird recuperation pools kept changing, too.
- After all that talk about how assassination can be moral because it saves lives, the train? Excuse me?
The scales balance poorly. There were way more blurred choppy confusing action sequences than there were excellent set pieces. If the action had been all good, I might have forgotten about the lack of creamy moral center. However, none of the victory conditions were achieved. Pity.
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