Wanted: A ridiculous film but good fun

PREPOSTEROUS PREMISE: Wanted is lip-smacking delicious for the style in its thrilling stunts.

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Cast: James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman

Director: Timur Bekmambetov

Wanted, the new action film starring James McAvoy and Angelina Jolie is what I'd describe as a guilty pleasure. It's a ridiculous film with a preposterous premise, but it's also really good fun.

McAvoy stars as Wesley, a scrawny, squeaky-voiced, frustrated office guy whose girlfriend's cheating on him with his best friend, and whose boss picks on him at the slightest excuse.

But his life changes dramatically when he's sought out by Fox (played by the lovely Ms Jolie), who informs him that like his father he was born into a thousand-year-old secret society of assassins, and that he's got killing in his DNA.

Even before he can absorb that information, he's unwittingly thrust into a high-adrenalin, pulse-racing car chase with Fox that's so stunningly choreographed, you'll have to stop yourself from standing up in your seat to cheer.

Anyways, Wesley allows Fox to take him to Sloan, the Fraternity's head honcho (played by Morgan Freeman) who explains that the brotherhood was founded by a clan of weavers who saw a chance to alter the world's destiny. The Fraternity takes it orders from the Loom of Fate, a weaving loom which issues the names of the targets through a code embedded in its fabric.