by Debbie Elias

Created on: July 06, 2008

If I knew nothing at all about WANTED before sitting down in my theatre seat, with the opening frame, I would know all that I needed to know to solidify my belief that not only did I want to see this film, I needed to see this film. A huge fan of director Timur Bekmambetov, it only takes a second of frame to know that he is the mastermind, the wizard, behind a film and WANTED is no different. On seeing Bekmambetov's signature works "Daywatch" and "Nightwatch", several years ago I predicted that it wouldn't be long before Bekmambetov's kick-ass, high octane, hyperkinetic, super-charged, out-of-breath ,visually exhilarating style would capture the attention of Hollywood and the world. And so it has as Bekmambetov ratchets up the excitement, the effects, the stunts and thrills to levels never before seen in filmmaking with WANTED.

Wesley Gibson has a life that no one would want. Stuck in a cubicle by day with a donut-scarfing frustrated loser of a boss whose only form of entertainment and exertion of power comes in the form of clacking a stapler over Wesley's head every 30 seconds, he leaves that hell only to go home to the hell of a girlfriend who takes nagging to new levels of annoyance and disdainful disgust. Oh, and she just happens to be having an affair with Wesley's best friend. Plagued by what he believes are anxiety attacks, Wesley medicates himself regularly - and heavily - which only contributes to his downtrodden dejection. If only Wesley knew what was waiting for him around the corner.

And while poor Wesley muddles along in life, on the other side of town there is more action going on than he could ever possibly imagine as high tech assassins are taking aim at one another leaving the town littered with dead bodies on roof tops and in the streets. But it doesn't take long before the two worlds collide.

Cornered at the local pharmacy by an oh-so-sexy woman named, appropriately enough, Fox, Wesley is dropped a bombshell (other than the fact this gorgeous woman is actually talking to him of all people). One of the "dead bodies" littering the street recently was that of his father. Never knowing his father, Wesley dismisses Fox as a nut job, that is until bullets start flying, with Wesley seemingly the target. But it goes beyond that as the battle at hand defies all known laws of physics. Bullets "bend" in mid-air, bodies manipulate as if moving through another dimension and cars, well, cars defy every known principal and mechanism ever discovered by Henry

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