 I went to see Wanted with Yellow Hat Friday night. I don't go to see movies in the theater very often and let's just say I'm that much less likely to do so again any time soon. Wanted was a "giant seaming pile of crap" as someone from my past might say.
Let's start with the story. A secret band of assassins who go around killing perfectly innocent people based on the whims of a magic loom that speaks binary and the plight of one of their sons who, up till now believed himself to be painfully ordinary and is now being recruited by the group to kill his own father. Absurdity is like Jumangi. You can only stack so many of them on top of each other before they collapse under their own weight. This plot was dead before it hit the ground.
Then there's the telling of the story, which was poor at best and nonexistent at worst. The movie is really nothing more than a sequence of killing sprees, but once in a while they realize that a handful of people might have come for more than the violence and profanity, so they cut to a minute or two of Morgan Freeman basically standing there and talking so that the audience has some vague idea of what the hell is going on.
Speaking of Morgan Freeman, he may be the saddest part of all this. Normally I enjoy his work, but he's just plain bad in his role as the leader of the loom people. It's more than a little obvious that he's doing his best to shoehorn himself into a role he is not at all comfortable in. Despite those efforts, he fails miserably. Even so, he may still be the least pathetic thing about this movie.
I made Yellow Hat promise to let me pick the move next time. | 
This one always makes me cry. It reminds me of 
