Wanted (Single-Disc Widescreen Edition) | 
 enlarge | Actors: Angelina Jolie, James Mcavoy, Morgan Freeman, Common, Terence Stamp
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  132 reviews
Sales Rank: 59
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 110 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.4
MPN: 61102058
UPC: 025195016674
EAN: 0025195016674
ASIN: B001GKJ2E8
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: December 2, 2008
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Product Description
A young man finds out his long lost father is an assassin. And when his father is murdered the son is recruited into his fathers old organization & trained by a man names sloan to follow in his dads footsteps. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 12/02/2008 Starring: James Mcavoy Angelina Jolie Run time: 110 minutes Rating: R
Amazon.com
As the impresario behind gravity-defying Russian blockbuster Night Watch, it's inevitable that Hollywood would come calling for Timur Bekmambetov. With a studio budget and an international cast, including two Oscar winners, Timur cooks up a Hong Kong-styled actioner bursting with fast cars and big guns. Our unlikely hero is mild-mannered Chicago accountant Wesley Gibson (Atonement's James McAvoy), whose father died when he was a tot. Wesley never learned to stand up for himself, and his girlfriend, boss, and best buddy all take advantage until the seductive Fox (Angelina Jolie) rescues him from a sharpshooter named Cross (The Pianist's Thomas Kretschmann). After which, she whisks him away to a mansion on the edge of town to meet the other members of the Fraternity, where leader Sloan (Morgan Freeman) informs Wesley that Cross, a rogue agent, executed his father. Sloan believes Wesley has the goods to take him out, so he undergoes the Fraternity's brutal training regimen (Marc Warren and Common dish up some of the abuse). When he's ready, Sloan sends him out to fulfill his duty, but matters become complicated when Wesley finds out someone isn't telling the truth, leading our former milquetoast to exact an elaborate revenge. For those who've been following McAvoy's career to date, Wanted will surely come as a surprise. In adapting Mark Millar's comic series, Timur offers buckets of blood and a smidgen of depth, but fans of The Matrix and Mr. and Mrs. Smith will want to give this one a look. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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 Deeper Message In The Action January 8, 2009
Law Of Attraction (Jackson, MI)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The story of a well meaning secret society being hijacked and taken over by a corrupt thug has a lot of parallels in the real world in regards to secret societies that were transformed into nihilistic, narcissistic death cults, who are obsessed with the acquisition of profit and power, and are the reason for a lot of the world's misery and suffering.
Sure the action is all eye candy but the movie is a loud, clear and brutal message about taking back control from murderous, Machiavellian manipulators(the wolves) whose only goal is total domination and "godhood" through the suppression, subjugation and eventual extermination of the world's masses(the sheep) as a pretext for creating a New World Order.
 Good movie with some very good actors January 8, 2009
Bill Evanochko (Sudbury On Canada)
This is a good movie which has some very unique special effects. Most were done in moscow so they are pretty far out there. The idea of bending a bullets flight and seeing two bullets hitting each other is not that believable, but seeing Angelina and Morgan freeman again was worth the price of the DVD. Story line was some what believable.
 Offensive and Unecessary Opening Lost My Disk January 6, 2009
Joseph Nelabovige (Pennsylvania)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
What is Hollywoods fixation on gross for effect scenes only.
The early opening has sex on a desk top for you to watch. My wife ripped the disk out and stomped it to death so that I could not return or resell it. She did not want anyone else to have to see at least that disk.
I saw no value to the scene. Just ignorant film making.
 wanted limited edition January 6, 2009
mong (hawaii, hi)
Great movie but not worth price with extra content. I wish I bought the regular version saved some money.
wanted 2 disc dvd January 6, 2009
Valerie J. Weber (bronx, ny usa)
This movie was fantastic. I can not believe the young man was the one who was in the first Narnia movie. Great action movie for anyone.
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