There’s no smarts behind it, merely style and spectacle, and Bekmambetov just runs with it. He’s not concerned with making it look real, just with making it look really cool and letting the audience decide if they’re in the mood to play his game.

| Apr 14, 2023

Wanted is a 14 year-old boy's fantasy - being given $3 million, a gun and Angelina Jolie as company. Your viewpoint of the film will depend on how well you can suspend disbelief and your opinions on casual violence.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 17, 2021

Stylistic, violent, innovative, startling, unexpected, and outrageous.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 28, 2020

Bekmambetov delivers audacious action and jaw-dropping stunts that will have fan boys of all ages hyperventilating with excitement.

| Nov 14, 2020

A modest, guilty pleasure.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 26, 2020

Trust me on this. You want to see WANTED.

| Nov 6, 2019

It comes blazing out of the gate flashing the middle finger on both hands, almost daring anyone to hate it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 6, 2019

Although the script is silly, there are kicks galore in Wanted.

| Dec 16, 2017

All it needs is the car chase, the train crash and the final shootout and I'd be happy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 21, 2014

For non-discerning action fans looking to satisfy your adrenaline rush, you can add this film to your most wanted list.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Aug 17, 2013

In normal cinematic terms, it could easily be dismissed as gun porn, boyish nonsense or action overkill. Fact is, in the realms of badass cinema, Wanted is damn near untouchable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 14, 2012

The movie never convincingly sells us on its tone, and setting.

| May 15, 2012

Wanted never takes itself too seriously and is fully aware of its frailties. This is fast and furious popcorn munching fodder, which doesn't waste time dabbling in meaningful theorising or contemplation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2011

Bekmambetov's movie evaporates pretty quickly after it's consumed.

Full Review | Jul 6, 2010

By leaps and bounds, Wanted is so far the finest adventure of the 2008 summer.

| Jul 6, 2010

Wanted is too bloody, too over the top, too silly, and too special effects driven. It's also excessively entertaining and fun.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 6, 2010

A movie so shamelessly derivative of so many other movies that it ought to have a work-cited page at the start of the closing credits.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 22, 2009

Few films have accepted the role of Matrix knockoff with such gusto as Wanted; indeed, at times it's almost impossible to distinguish the two.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 30, 2009

kombinacijom strip-akcije i koliko-toliko realnog lika vi%u0161e nego zadovoljava kriterije neobavezne ljetne zabave

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 15, 2009

...an entirely ineffectual actioner that suffers from many of the same problems that one now associates with the genre.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 9, 2009