Wanted: Brace Yourselves For A Wild Ride

Published: February 23, 2008, 1:41 pm

Tags: movies

At the Universal panel, we were treated to an entire scene from the upcoming action film Wanted. You'd better brace yourselves for this one, folks. The action in Wanted is going to be ultra-over-the-top. Basically I felt like I was watching a superhero movie, even though it's actually about an elite group of assassins with no super-powers. The sequence was not quite complete in regards to music (Danny Elfman is scoring) and visual effects, but it definitely gave us the tone of the film. The scene that was shown was the one we see in the trailer that starts out at the mini-mart where Jolie introduces herself to James McAvoy's character. An assassin is there to kill McAvoy and she saves him in an extended gunfight sequence that is very effective at showing her skill and experience. Unfortunately, McAvoy's character freaks out (as I'm sure any of us would) and takes off running, which removes him from Jolie's protection. As he's about to be run down by the bad guy in a delivery truck

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