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See Wanted, Enjoy the Ride

Posted Jun 27, 08 11:18 AM CDT in Opinion,  Arts & Living 

(Newser) – If you're heading out to see the new Angelina Jolie flick Wanted, critics have some advice: Lighten up and enjoy it. "It’s trash, but I love it anyway,” writes Peter Travers in Rolling Stone. The story of a “nobody” office worker who winds up “a tight, muscled killing machine” in a team of assassins, the film’s got “passion as well as pow” without “a scintilla of redeeming social value,” Travers notes.

Sam Adams agrees in the Los Angeles Times. “Wanted presents you with a choice. You can let yourself be carried off at breakneck speed, or you can grumble about the laws of physics and start checking your watch.” It’s “silly stuff, but you have to admire the demon joy with which it’s all done,” writes Kyle Smith in the New York Post.

Sources Rotten Tomatoes, Rolling Stone, Los Angeles Times, New York Post

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In this image released by Universal Pictures, Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy, left, are shown in a scene from the film, "Wanted."   (AP Photo/Universal Pictures, Jaap Buitendijk)
Director Timur Bekmambetov of Kazakhstan poses next to a banner of his latest movie "Wanted" starring U.S. actress Angelina Jolie, British actor James McAvoy, and U.S. actor Morgan Freeman, during a photocall...   (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
In this image released by Universal Studios, James McAvoy is shown in a scene from the film "Wanted."   (AP Photo/Universal Studios)
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