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(1 - 44) of 44 OFCS Rating: 86% Fresh Page   1   "an eye-goggling, grin-inducing, thought-provoking hybrid of the SF and superhero genres that, unusually, aims its guns directly at an adult audience, while deftly outshooting all the competition."   musicOMH.com   Anton Bitel 4.5/5 ""...if they're not careful, those Marvel superheroes better watch out. Wanted could usurp their position as 2008's best popcorn escape."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron B "An optical flame-thrower for the first hour, with the director pulling out all the stops to announce Wanted as a film cocked and loaded with exclamation points pointed in all directions."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf A- "You'll come for the action; you'll enjoy it more because of James McAvoy."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 6/10 "Angelina Jolie has evolved. As of Wanted, she is no longer merely mortal, but her own sublime creature."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 4/5 "For most of its running time, 'Wanted' makes a virtue of outlandishness."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger 3/5 "It's one thing to laugh along with a live-action cartoon, but once Wanted starts playing it straight, we start to groan."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius C "Should have the targeted fanboy crowd wetting their briefs over all the in-your-face violence."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 3/4 "Alive with stylistic innovation and impressively clean storytelling. The experience is close to exhilarating."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman A- ""Wanted" is exactly what it is supposed to be: a slick, well-produced piece of popcorn fluff with a hot chick, hot cars and enough action to fill a half-dozen Marvel adaptations."   FilmJerk.com   Edward Havens B "The stylized violence and unapologetically ludicrous action sequences are the selling point, and Wanted delivers those by the blood-soaked truckload."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 1.5/4 "When we, the audience, are confronted directly at the end and asked "what the #$!% have you done lately?" at least you can readily answer, "well, I sure didn't make a film as crappy as Wanted.""   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress B "Summer '08 has been full of decent, largely predictable rollercoaster rides, but here's one that's a little off-kilter, and kind of unique."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 3/4 "It's definitely one of the better guilty pleasures of 2008..."   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. B+ "Possesses a 'wow' factor that will make it one of the summer's biggest hits...an unabashed testosterone-adrenaline cocktail spiced up with a dollop of torture-porn bloodlust."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/4 "Wanted manages to deliver what action fans crave while still maintaining a veneer of artfulness."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3/4 "has an infectious absurdity that you can't help but admire"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick "Wanted is bull****, but it's inventive bull**** - and that is what makes it different from about 95% of all the other, more generic action movies out there!"   Sci-Fi Movie Page   James O'Ehley 4/5 "Wanted's a corporate product, but, thankfully, it's an excellent one -- the two-fisted, double-barreled high-octane guilty pleasure summer action movie you've been waiting for."   Cinematical   James Rocchi 5.5/10 "For those looking for an instinctively engaging zero to anti-hero tale, filled with all sorts of imaginative and hip visual shenanigans, one could do far worse than this offering."   Screen It!   Jim Judy 2/4 "Without characters to care about, this kinetic, violent shoot-em-up is merely a showcase for Russian director Timur Bekmambetov. But the violence on screen is nothing compared to the kind of bludgeoning given to your suspension of disbelief."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito 4/10 "It's for people who thought there wasn't enough noise, blood, or violence in Hitman, Shoot 'Em Up, or Planet Terror."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio 4.0/4.0 "... exudes danger and desire, from the forbidden beauty of Angelina Jolie to a plot with more twists than M. Night Shyamalan's entire career (and that's not an exaggeration)."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson B+ "Timur Bekmambetov, who blew away the Russian box office with "Night Watch," makes his English language debut with a bang, succeeding spectacularly at what last year's "Shoot 'Em Up" tried and died with."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2.5/4 "McAvoy delivers a strikingly nuanced performance as Wesley and Bekmambatov puts a high gloss on the increasing preposterous goings on, but in the end it's an idiot fable, all sound and fury signifying nothing."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh "[S]imultaneously feel[s] exhilaratingly like one of the most cleverly original action scripts in years and... comfortably reminiscent of a slew of hero's-journey adventures..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3.5/4 "Periodically you see a film that is so jacked up on adrenaline that the audience gets a palpable contact high. Wanted fits squarely into this category."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B "Nasty, twisted, pulpy, and brutally violent."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow 2.5/4 "Speaking of bodies, Jolie's is here front and center, her svelte frame slinking across the screen with an alluring animalism magnified by the steamy twinkle in her eyes and sensual gestures as small as a wave of the hand or a shrug of the shoulder."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 4/5 "Sem alcançar qualquer peso dramático, O Procurado é puro estilo e nenhuma substância, é verdade. Mas, às vezes, é o que basta."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 4/5 "Wanted's greatest asset is director Timur Bekmambetov's (in his English-language directorial debut) willingness to acknowledge the film's utter goofiness."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 5/5 "One of the cheerfully insane, visually extraordinary and compulsively entertaining action blockbusters to emerge from Hollywood in a long, long time."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 4/5 "Like The Matrix, it's not nearly as complex as it pretends to be, but it's visually stunning and relentlessly entertaining"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline B "As long as you check your ethics at the door, there's nothing wrong with reveling in its skillful brand of sociopathic mayhem."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux B "As slick and visually exciting as any movie I've seen since 'The Matrix.'"   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten 4/5 "Simply wants to dazzle you for 100 minutes, at least enough to get you excited for the DVD release and yep, the eventual sequel. Count me in for both please."   FEARnet   Scott Weinberg B "ou either go with the fantasy and enjoy the impossible acts of kinetic creativity or get stuck in the preposterousness of the premise and the flippant execution."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 3.5/5 "there are more than enough original thrills to distance Wanted from its assorted predecessors"   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell "Wanted is fast-moving and bloody, enjoyable even within its unapologetically generic limits. But McAvoy is its real secret weapon."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 9/10 "Bekmambetov ups the ante on turning cult comic books into big-screen adventures with this hyper-kinetic, viscerally thrilling, supercharged transformation of a nerd into a superhero."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 4/10 "A string of hyper-stylised action sequences cut to ribbons so that you could hardly follow what was happening at any particular moment."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 3.5/4 "Wanted' is an action oriented film that gives the audience what they want and then some."   BlackFilm.com   Wilson Morales 8/10 Read review   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo Read review   3BlackChicks Review   Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel  (1 - 44) of 44 OFCS Rating: 86% Fresh Page   1