The offspring of Fight Club and the Matrix
Voila:
Yes, I did it. I made a movie comparison with the Matrix. I always detested when an action movie was compared with the Matrix but I think that enough time has passed and bullet-time could be cool again…
“Wanted” doesn’t even try to replicate its predecessors. I think the director understands the essence of what made those movies a success and doesn’t try to follow any specific recipe of success.
But the general outline is the same: Take a normal human with an ordinary life and seconds-thoughts about the meaning of his existence and put him trough a mind expanding journey. From there on, it has the bullet time and all the stunt work of the Matrix and the brutality and self-narration of Fight Club.
Generally, I applaud these kinds of stories because they help all us with the 9-5 lives make a reality check and consider that there could be something different out there. And although I like the attitude I don’t think that this movie will change anything in the common people minds.
Don’t forget that both the Matrix and Fight Club are already a decade old – and what has changed since then? But this is not the point. The movies are created to entertain – and if they have underlying criticism about society all the better but that’s just an artist’s voice against the world.
In the end all that remains is the visual impact (which was outstanding in this movie) and the joy it brought to the masses (I have a feeling it will go well there too). I kinda got bored seeing each bullet being stopped by another bullet (yeah right…) and I have a few other objections like the one dimensional characters of the fraternity, but the good certainly overthrow the rest:
Good performances from the actors, natural blending of the special effects, a screenplay with a fine balance between the action and story telling and a realistic ending that is satisfactory.
I would recommend this movie simply because its a notch above other action movies you can see at cinemas these days, but if you also want to get into a self-realization experience it would indeed be what you’re looking for…
