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

Full Review | 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

Bekmambetov made better films in Russia with far less money and more ideas.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 1, 2008

It's made for fans of films that really just want to see some great visuals, some amazing sequences and some terrific performances.

Full Review | Jun 30, 2008

A 12-armed heavy-metal drummer of a movie, kicking and flailing through two hours of impossible. The car chase of the year.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 28, 2008

I've watched a movie that, while fiercely entertaining, made me fear for the emotional health of my gender. You have a problem with that?

| Jun 27, 2008

The kind of thrill ride that they used to make more often during the summer season - an over-the-top action movie made strictly for adults. Keep your superheroes. Give me more of these.

| Jun 27, 2008

If the graphic-novel-style hyperviolence of Sin City or 300 is your thing, go ahead and knock yourself out. Or let Angelina do it for you ... It feels so much nicer that way.

| Jun 27, 2008

Directed at a pitch of gritty giddiness by the Kazakhstan-born Timur Bekmambetov, this hard-R splatter-fest about a team of sanctified assassins is also the summer's zazziest action movie.

| Jun 27, 2008

Director Timur Bekmambetov's gimmicks and the A-list cast sell the nonsense.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 27, 2008

Ultimately, watching Wanted feels like being privy to somebody else's unwholesome fantasy, one you'd rather not know about.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 27, 2008

Wanted is fast-moving and bloody, enjoyable even within its unapologetically generic limits. But McAvoy is its real secret weapon.

Full Review | Jun 27, 2008

That Timur Bekmambetov's amped-up action flick Wanted makes absolutely no sense is entirely irrelevant. Your brain, in fact, can take a two-hour hiatus. But your adrenal glands will be working overtime.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 27, 2008

Wanted's hyperkinetic antics are sometimes weighed down by a surfeit of adolescent misanthropy. But the adrenaline-overdose strategy works for viewers as well as hit men.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 27, 2008

[Bekmambetov] hasn't just made a thriller with Wanted, he's redefined the genre.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 27, 2008

It's a chance to watch a bullet explode from the forehead of a killer -- and an invitation to laugh at the spectacle. See what you do, then tell me who's sicker: Bekmambetov or us.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 27, 2008

The film's high proficiency is at the service of a concept that can most accurately be defined as sadomasochistic.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 27, 2008

Wanted is quite happy to judge a man by the size of his gun. The irony is that the biggest one here belongs to Jolie, and her Amazon smile indicates she knows exactly how nervous that makes the boys.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 27, 2008

Slams the pedal to the metal and never slows down.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 27, 2008

Wanted shows life in the killing lane with lots of zippy effects, action and exploding heads.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 27, 2008