by Kia Tyler

Created on: March 16, 2009

WANTED - CURE FOR THE COMMON COLD

I can tell you one thing - the price for a combination of a box of Kleenex, cold medicine, and the newest version of Tomb Raider was enough to kill me right there in the store. But, since I couldn't manage a decent complaint between sneezes, I surrendered my check card to the cashier and settled on a little frown. There, I thought. That'll teach this company to kick a sick person when they're down. As I holed up in my apartment, ready to fight off a monster of a cold, I found myself flipping through the pay-per-view section of my TV.

Seen it, seen it, can't believe they made it.

Not a moment too soon, suffering from the beginnings of "remote operator fatigue", my thumb too tired to carry on, and sneezing enough to lose an eyeball, I settled on a new movie: Wanted.

Okay, I thought. Let's give it a try. The eye candy alone should be worth it. I must say this was a time when I wished I had been smart enough to watch this film in the theater. My tiny TV set minus the magic of surround sound did its best to bring for the brilliance of the film. I found myself re-reasoning everything I'd been conditioned to believe made a "lame movie". Although this film had them all, somehow it made the ridiculous work in a fun, irreverent way. I only wish I could have been a part of during productions of this film.

As I watched the symphony of car chases, gunfights, explosions, and quite a decent performance by all the actors, I began to notice something: I hadn't sneezed once. As the story of Wesley Gibson unfolded, his meaningless existence as an office drone, his rise to the ranks of a secret organization of assassins, and the developing of his ability to curve a bullet, the idea of it all seemed absurd, yes, but for some reason, I couldn't keep my eyes off the screen. This film, so loaded with everything a movie fan wants to see - action, comedy, intrigue, simply couldn't be wrong, so.just to be sure, I watched it again.

And there I was, at the end of the film for the second time. I still had a full box of Kleenex, and obsessed with the sudden need to surf the internet for possibilities of bullet curving.

And still I'd never sneezed once. Is Wanted really the cure for the common cold? Sure it is the cure for boredom, the common cold, an eyeful of Angelina, and being too darn lazy to work the buttons for Tomb Raider.

But, then again, it may have been the cold caplets.

There's only one way to find out, right? Try out Wanted, available now on pay per view and DVD.

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