Man, no wonder Timur Bekmambetov started talking about “Wanted 2″ a week before this movie came out.
It’s been a rough summer for everybody, but Honest Abe really took it on the chin, making only $16 million this weekend. Reviews weren’t great either; most critics shredded it.
For our part, it’s a solid action movie. It’s actually quite a bit better than “Wanted”, story-wise, not least because Bekmambetov was clearly kept far, far away from the script. Similarly, Burton’s fingerprints are all over this: the movie plays out a lot like his beloved Hammer horror movies.
But at the same time, it doesn’t go nearly far enough with the concept. Bekmambetov actually tries to play this one seriously, and it doesn’t quite fit together. It’s too serious to be campy fun, yet too campy and too shallow to earn the gravity it tries to put to the proceedings. But it’s still a lot of fun, either way, and Bekmambetov can handle an action sequence.
What about you? What’d you think?
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Well, I enjoyed the book in a “who said reading has to make you smarter” kind of way.
I felt smarter after reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies…
My wife and I went Saturday night and we both enjoyed it much more than either of us expected to. I thought it actually worked to its advantage that it was played straight, given how absurd the entire premise is.
I thought it was a fun movie. Took itself a bit to seriously at time for the type of movie it was. It had quite a few fight scenes that were really well done, and some of the dialogue was a bit bad at times. An enjoyable movie to watch overall.
It was a nice action flick, not the bast, but not as bad as all the bashings its gotten.
The problem is, movies try to be original, and when they are, everyone bashes it. Everyone hates reboots and sequels, but shuts off to original works.
that and the book was fun too.