Wanted

The movie ‘Wanted’ is an action thriller movie released on  27 June 2008. It was directed by Timur Bekmambetov and the screenplay was written by Michael Brandt, Derek Haas, and Chris Morgan. This movie received two Oscar nominations.

The cast of the movie includes the following actors:

James McAvoy as Wesley Gibson

Angelina Jolie as Fox

Morgan Freeman as Sloan

Chris Pratt as Barry

Common (rapper) as Gunsmith

Kristen Hager as Cathy

Thomas Kretschmann as Cross

Terence Stamp as Pekwarsky

Lorna Scott as Janice

David O'Hara as Mr. X

 

 

Plot summary:

The opening sequence of the movie shows a man names Mr. X going to meet a lady and they talk about the mystery of an organization where they get attacked. Mr. X runs from that place and jumps into the next building but gets to know that it was a trap and someone blows his skull off there.

 

There is a boy named Wesley Gibson who is tired of his life and his monotonous job and his boss also keeps on irritating him with her orders. In his office works his friend too. But actually, his friend is having a secret affair with his girlfriend. Wesley can’t say anything because he is an introvert. His life seems to be very colorless. He even takes pills for his panic attacks. One day while he was buying pills from a store, there comes a lady named Fox. Fox tells him that she knew about his father. But Wesley tells her not to disturb him because his father died when Wesley was very young. But Fox denies that and says that his father was alive and was killed just yesterday. She adds that his name was Mr. X. and she even tells him that his life too is in danger. At the same moment, a man starts firing at Fox and Wesley and Fox also fires back. Wesley gets confused about the scene. Fox takes Wesley from that place and the attacker follows them. But since Fox was a very skilled driver and shooter she saves Wesley’s life.

 

In the very next scene, Wesley’s eyes open at a place where he is surrounded by a group of people. At that place appears Morgan Freeman who asks Wesley to grab the gun and shoot at the flies. Wesley tells them that he is not how they actually think and he has a very simple life. He adds that Fox came and took her and he doesn’t know anything. But another man comes and points his gun at Wesley’s head and asks him to shoot. Wesley gets a panic attack but he has to do that and hence he surprisingly fires at the flies. He gets very shocked at what he did.

 

Then he gets back to his work where he gets too frustrated and shouts at his boss and even throws a keyboard at his cheater friend’s mouth and leaves. Fox comes to pick him up and she takes him to a place where he meets Sloan and he tells him that what Wesley calls his panic attacks are not really panic attacks but they are the energies that give him special abilities. Wesley gets confused and asks him who they are. Sloan replies that they are the members of Assassin and his father was their coworker. She also adds that a few days ago, his father was killed and now they are searching for him to kill him. Sloan also tells that they get to know about the name of the people who are going to do something wrong in the future from ‘Loom of Fate’ and they kill them after knowing.

 

Wesley’s training begins when he gets brutally beaten and he gets to learn how to bear tortures. He is also taught various skills like turning a bullet in a curve. Then Fox takes him for the work. He starts firing at the culprits and becomes a successful assassin. One day, Wesley gets in front of Victor and they start fighting. Victor shoots Wesley in his shoulder and leaves. Now Sloan tells Wesley that it was Victor who killed his father and tells him to kill Victor. Basically, Wesley is given the job of killing Victor. But in the loom of fates, Wesley's name also comes and hence Sloan tells Fox to kill Wesley.

 

Wesley takes the bullet out of his shoulder and tracks it and goes to a place where he tells a man to fix a meeting with Victor. Then a scene is shown where Wesley and Victor get into a fight on a train. Fox also comes there and derails the train so that Wesley and Victor die. But surprisingly, Victor saves Wesley. But Wesley shoots at Victor and while dying Victor tells Wesley that he is his real father. The pivotal point of the movie comes here when Fox tells Wesley that Victor is right and Victor is Wesley’s father. They trained Wesley because they knew that Victor would never kill Wesley. Fox adds that now she has to kill both of them because both of their names had come in the ‘Loom of Fate’. Wesley runs out of the train and jumps into the river. Pekwarsky saves Wesley and tells him that years ago ‘Loom of Fate’ showed the name of Sloan himself but he hid the name. Victor didn’t like how he went out of the morale so he left the organization. And now Sloan has started killing anyone he likes to earn money. He even adds that Victor wanted to kill Sloan because he is misusing the power. Now Wesley starts following Sloan to fulfill his father’s dream.

 

Wesley tells all the assassins about the reality of Sloan. Sloan accepts that and says that by doing that he has saved their life too because ‘Loom of Fate’ gave their name too. He convinces everyone to kill Wesley and they point their gun to Wesley. But Fox fires a curved bullet and kills everyone and she also gets killed by that bullet. But Wesley is safe and he follows Sloan to kill him. He puts him in a trap and shoots him and the movie ends.