MOVIE REVIEW - WANTED

Angelina Jolie has a new movie out this week, Wanted. Also starring Morgan Freeman and others, Wanted is certainly summertime movie viewing.

The movie based on the the comic book series about a secret "Fraternity" of highly trained assassins that are sworn to a secret code, and pull of stunning assassinations of evil doers in the world. Complete with extensive training and curving bullets too! It's a story of killing, revenge, and supposedly good versus evil. But to be honest this movie falls flat, flat, flat.

If you're going to see Wanted to see Angelina Jolie do really cool things, be sexy, or deliver snappy dialogue, you're going to the wrong flick. If this movie did not have her name on it, no one on earth would really be interesting in this movie, or go see it. Her role of Fox, a trained assassin is a sidebar at best. Looking 30 pounds underweight never having lines more that 5 words long, she is merely a sideshow here. Much like her :"highly touted" role in Gone In 60 Seconds, where she appears in it for about 10 minutes.

Plain and simple, if you want to see tons of gratuitous killing, a story that make no real sense and that doesn't need to be told, and watch Angelina Jolie pretend to drive a car, than this is your movie. If you're looking for something a little more toothy, and go to anything else besides Wanted. I by now means am opposed to a good old fashioned shoot 'em up a action flick, but let's have a reason to make one OK??

Wow! Wanted. I can't believe I've put this much time into typing this review. Let's hope the door is slammed in this franchise.