When the fate of mankind hangs in the balance, where should we look for guidance?
To religion and the unerring faith in an unseen, benevolent greater power?
No, the answers we seek are in the tangled threads of a white linen shirt.
So says Wanted, a slam-bang action thriller based on a comic book series about a brotherhood o
f gun-toting weavers who divine the future from imperfections in fabric.
If the premise of Timur Bekmambetov's English-language debut doesn't make you chuckle in disbelief, his high-octane film certainly will, blending a potent cocktail of gratuitous violence,
jaw-dropping action and adult humour.
The Kazakhstan director's distinctive, hyperkinetic visual style runs rampant here. Bullets defy the laws of physics and rats full of explosive-laden peanut butter reduce an entire stronghold to rubble.
James McAvoy plays a lowly accountant recruited into these mysteries by a sexy stranger (Angelina Jolie) and an enigmatic leader (Morgan Freeman).
Wanted doesn't take itself seriously and nor should we, enjoying this orgy of gravity-defying acrobatics as escapist fantasy writ large. McAvoy's American accent never falters and the physical transformation is impressive. Sexual tension with Jolie's vamp thankfully never comes to the boil.
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