The scene: A marketing meeting for a certain production company.
Chief Exec: OK, we need to put out a new movie. Let’s brainstorm: what will sell?
Exec#1: Girls. Scantily clad.
Exec#2: Cars. Definitely gotta have cars.
Exec#3: Lots of fights with Matrix-style slo-mo effects.
Chief Exec: Brilliant! This movie will make zillions of dollars. Find some shmuck to write a script and toss him a couple of dollars. Let’s move forward with this idea.
…and thus seems to have been the way the upcoming movie “Wanted” was born. Take 1/3 Bloodsport, 1/3 Redline, and 1/3 The Matrix and stir until cliche.
Don’t get me wrong; I’m still going to see it. But I’m going to see it in the same spirit that I went to see “Aliens vs. Predator”, “Van Helsing”, “Mission Impossible 3″, and “The Core”..it’s more of a journey into the human psyche than anything else.
From the trailers I have seen, I have this one thing to say about my impressions: if any movie is likely to make teenagers more likely to get me-too awful tribal/celtic tattoos, it is “Wanted” by a long shot.
