19 November 2008 3:38 AM, PST | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news
Mark Millar and J.G. Jones’ comic book series “Wanted” turns into a sensational on-screen actioner and now arrives on Blu-ray. Since I missed this one on the big screen, I was absolutely thrilled by the nonstop, high-octane thrills under the meticulous direction of Russian helmer Timur Bekmambetov (“Night Watch,” “Day Watch”). Wesley Gibson (multi-talented James McAvoy) is a nothing. He lives in a broken down apartment, works at a dead end job under an overweight Nazi of a boss called Janice (Lorna Scott) who constantly undermines him and he’s too much of a sissy to ditch his girlfriend of quite some time who’s screwing the annoying co-worker posing as his best pal. On top of that, he has panic attacks which require medication or his heart beats to a rhythm of 400 a strikes a minute. We’re told his father hit the road when Wesley was a mere
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