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Wanted

Breakneck, R-rated action with a tiny nod to the source material

Score
4.5
Darren says

Points for taking a ridiculous story and trying to give a new life in the form of a bombastic Hollywood Gun-Fu movie.

Tym says

Smarmy, derivative, from a sharp director who deserves better materal.

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Writer Mark Millar and artist J.G. Jones created the limited series for Top Cow Comics, an indie deconstruction of a dystopia overrun by supervillains. While comics reiterate comics, film reiterates film, and here the supervilllain structure is swapped for fatalistic mercenary group in an espionage thriller under the helm of adrenal stylist Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch and Day Watch).

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