Wanted
Wanted is the secret-society-of-super-powered-assassins movie that you would have written when you were 14 - heavily reliant on plot and violence, light on constructing a believable backdrop for this plot and violence. Thus it holds together right up to the point that it doesn't, which is about 30 seconds after the society of the secret assassins is introduced. How such a secret society would really operate is given no thought, and so the movie is reduced to one crazy gun battle after another. It would have held my attention more if I could have believed in the world of these assassins, but instead I found my mind drifting.
Surely you'd structure it more like a religious cult? Surely you wouldn't plan impossible-to-do-without-super-powers assassinations against ordinary (and unsuspecting) targets when something less spectacular (and less likely to draw suspicion) would suffice? Surely if you knew that there are those with the ability to bend reality a little (that is if you think that the ability to curve bullets is just a slight bending of reality), then you'd have a research division devoted to increasing that ability? Surely you'd...
get a good scriptwriter.
If you haven't had your fill of stupidity then Joe Bob says check it out.
posted by winstoninabox @ 11:25 PM
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The chief problem is the translation from the comic book where the "Society of Assassins" is actually a group of supervillains who have taken over the world after finally defeating all the superheroes. Since they control the word, they get away with murder. There's a good deal less noble self sacrifice in the comic, too.
Someone in the studio must've said something along the lines of "this story is cool and violent, but the main character is already pretty unlikeable, you can't make him a supervillain as well. Assassins are nice, right. Especially assassins who are the underdogs, or something." Then they start reminiscing about the good old days when you could snort coke from the thigh of a wannabe starlet, or whatever, and become increasingly less coherent.
That said, the comic is also something you'd write when were 14, but when you were the kind of 14 year old who got sent to the principal's office a lot for the graphic and disturbing nature of your English essays.
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