Wanted
Dir Timur Bekmambetov, featuring James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie (PG)
By David Fear
Though this all-killer-all-filler action flick from Russian director Timur Bekmambetov (Day Watch) is based on a comic book and replicates the next-level momentum of a video game, it's more like the cinematic equivalent of an energy drink.
The film keeps artificially pumping your adrenal glands with mindless, malnutritional sensations, only to leave you crampy and cranky minutes later.
Having pummeled us, Passion of the Christ-style, for an excruciatingly long haul, this exercise in ultraviolence then insults us by having a beaten, bloodied McAvoy inform viewers that he used to be a loser "just like all of you."
Hey, Wanted, what did we ever do to deserve such punishment, except give you $15 and almost two hours of our wasted time?