Review: 'Wanted' is unbelievable, yet enjoyable

This is probably the only time in my life I will say this: "Thank God for advertising." If it wasn't for the trailer and all of the commercials I never would have been mentally prepared for the ridiculousness that is "Wanted" and probably wouldn't of enjoyed it nearly as much as I did.

At the beginning of "Wanted," Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) is just your average guy who hates the world. He hates his job, his boss and he knows his girlfriend is cheating on him. He basically has no reason to live (Phew, that's harsh). Then he meets a chick named Fox (Angelina Jolie) who is part of a group of assassins named "The Fraternity." (I wonder if they have to pay monthly dues.) Fox takes him under her wing and teaches him all kinds of crazy stuff in order to make him an unstoppable assassin and become part of The Fraternity.

Like I said earlier, the advertising for this movie really prepares a person for all of the impossible stuff that this fraternity is capable of doing. They are able to curve bullets by just flicking their wrists. They can drive a car like, well there's really nothing to compare that to, it's absolutely ridiculous. You know all of the cool stunts you see little boys do with Matchbox cars? That's what these assassins are capable of doing. They can make a car jump and flip perfectly and land exactly where they need to. They are just that good.

But while all of that stuff is crazy, it doesn't even hold a candle to the way they determines their targets. Sloan (Morgan Freeman), the head of The Fraternity, determines the groups next target by reading a piece of fabric. No, I'm not making this stuff up. He actually takes a magnifying glass to a sheet a fabric and determines whom to kill. Um, OK.

In spite of all of this craziness, I actually kind of enjoyed the movie. It's embarrassing to say it, but it's the truth. I never would of thought that a movie could be so stupid, yet still so enjoyable. I mean, everything about this movie is stupid. The number of times bullets collide, stupid. Exploding mice, stupid. A guy jumping over a street, stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I have absolutely no idea how I can like this movie so much, but I do.