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Release Date:
27 June 2008 (USA) moreTagline:
Choose your destiny. morePlot:
A frustrated office worker learns that he is the son of a professional assassin, and that he shares his father's superhuman killing abilities. full summary | full synopsisAwards:
4 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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Wanted on DVD and Blu-ray (From Filmonic. 2 December 2008, 2:25 PM, PST)
Win 'Wanted' on DVD
(From Get The Big Picture. 2 December 2008, 1:45 PM, PST)
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Male Version of "Nikita" With Gore and Special Effects moreUS Showtimes:
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Rated R for strong bloody violence throughout, pervasive language and some sexuality.Parents Guide:
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110 minLanguage:
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2.35 : 1 moreCertification:
South Korea:18 | Ireland:16 | UK:18 | Finland:K-15 | Singapore:NC-16 | Hong Kong:IIB | Philippines:R-13 (MTRCB) | Malaysia:18SG | USA:R (certificate #44457) | Canada:13+ (Québec) | Netherlands:16 | South Africa:16 | Canada:18A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) | France:U (with warning) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | Australia:MA | Portugal:M/16 | New Zealand:R16 | Brazil:18 | Germany:18 | Argentina:16 | Japan:R-15 | Sweden:15 | Spain:18 | Ireland:18 (DVD rating) | Singapore:M18 (DVD rating) | Peru:18MOVIEmeter: 
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After Wesley leaves his job, you can see a sign for "Wicked: The Musical" in the background. Producer 'Mark Platt' produced the Broadway show. moreGoofs:
Continuity: When Wesley is first given a gun at the fraternity, its his fathers Beretta 92. When he gets back to his apartment, the gun that falls out his pocket is a Colt 1911. When he returns to the fraternity he is seen with the Beretta again. moreQuotes:
[first lines]Wesley: [voice-over] It's my anorexic boss' birthday. This means there's a certain amount of inter-office pressure to stand around the conference table, eating crappy food and pretending to worship her. Acting for five minutes like Janice doesn't make all our lives miserable is the hardest work I'll do all day. My job title is account manager. I used to be called an account service representative, but a consultant told us we have to manage our clients, and to not service them. I have a girlfriend who I neither manage or service. That's my best friend Barry fucking her on an Ikea kitchen table I picked up for a really good price. I'm finding it hard to care about anything these days. In fact, the only thing I do care about is the fact that I can't care about anything. Seriously, it worries me. My name is Wesley Gibson. My dad walked out on my mom when I was seven days old. Sometimes I wonder if he ever looked into my baby blue eyes and asked himself "did I just father the most insignificant asshole of the twenty-first century"?
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The anxious, clumsy and abused office clerk Wesley Allan Gibson (James McAvoy) has a hell and boring routine life: his obese boss humiliates him all the time and his girlfriend betrays him with his colleague and best friend during working period. When he meets the sexy Fox (Angeline Jolie), Wesley is informed that his father was a professional killer that belonged to an ancient organization called Fraternity and killed by the skilled and powerful Cross (Thomas Kretschmann), a hit-man that has betrayed the Fraternity. Wesley learns that his anxiety actually is a manifestation of his latent abilities and he joins the society under the command of Sloan (Morgan Freeman). Trained by Fox, he changes his personality and attitude, being prepared to face the dangerous Cross and find a hidden secret.
"Wanted" uses the storyline of "La Femme Nikita" blended with lots of gore, revenge and special effects à la "Equilibrium". The story has a good cast, with names like Terence Stamp, Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie; a very high-budget; and is full of action. Viewers that like "Blockbuster Movies" probably may like this movie much more than I did. I still prefer movies based on intelligent screenplays and acting rather than in explosions and special effects. My vote is six.
Title (Brazil): "O Procurado" ("The Wanted")