Comments on: Wanted http://www.goodisthenewbad.com/wanted-149.htm Everyone has an opinion. Yours is probably wrong. Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:39:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jeffrey Williams http://www.goodisthenewbad.com/wanted-149.htm/comment-page-1#comment-201 Jeffrey Williams Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:15:27 +0000 http://www.goodisthenewbad.com/wanted-149.htm#comment-201 <i>Wanted</i> kicked ass. It might be unfaithful to the source material, but it channelled the spirit of superhero comics better than anything else I've seen this year -- even <i>Iron Man</i>. Sure, it's <i>Fight Club</i> lite. But, strangely, that never bothered me for a moment. The giddy sense of liberation and the wild, Tex Avery cartoon worthy action sequences had me wide eyed with glee. I loved how there was no moment too banal to be enhanced with VFX and ridiculous flourishes. The Russian director was blissfully free of the pompous American concept of restraint. Ridiculously senseless fun all the way around. Wanted kicked ass. It might be unfaithful to the source material, but it channelled the spirit of superhero comics better than anything else I’ve seen this year — even Iron Man.

Sure, it’s Fight Club lite. But, strangely, that never bothered me for a moment. The giddy sense of liberation and the wild, Tex Avery cartoon worthy action sequences had me wide eyed with glee.

I loved how there was no moment too banal to be enhanced with VFX and ridiculous flourishes. The Russian director was blissfully free of the pompous American concept of restraint. Ridiculously senseless fun all the way around.

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