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“Within the first five minutes of Wanted,” wrote an excitable Premiere magazine, “a trench-coated assassin flings himself through a top storey window of a Chicago skyscraper and lands in slow mo on an adjacent rooftop.”

“And this spectacular display of CG technology sets the scene for an action-packed romp.”

Fresh from gentle romantic comedies (Starter For Ten) and earnest political dramas (The Last King of Scotland), our very own James McAvoy now stars alongside Angelina Jolie in a proper Hollywood blockbuster.

Wesley Gibson is a 25-year-old disengaged slacker with little ambition in his life.

But after his estranged father is murdered, he is recruited into the Fraternity, a secret society that trains him to avenge his father’s death by unlocking dormant powers.

“As nonsense goes, this has a certain gusto and glee,” said the New Yorker.

“But what looks set to be a boyish fantasy — if Angelina Jolie kicked out your windshield and asked you to take the wheel while she shoots at the vehicle behind, you can hardly refuse — it wades into a welter of bloodletting.”

Violent it most certainly is, but then this is the kind of violence that bears little parallel with the real world.

Via the magic of CGI, this is a cartoon caper come vividly to two dimensional life: you simply sit back and enjoy.

“Wanted offers more than enough twists, turns and surprises to fool anyone,” said Empire magazine.

“And McAvoy instantly crashes into the A-list.”

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