Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie has had a backward career, in a way. Where many actors start off in generic action movies and thrillers and hope to achieve critical acclaim ...

Wanted pulled in an impressive $342 million at the box office and plans for a sequel immediately went into development, though they seem to have stalled at some point. In the second act of the film, the fully trained James McAvoy returns to his old apartment and beats up Chris Pratt. When his ex-girlfriend unleashes a torrent of verbal abuse regarding his sexual prowess, Angelina Jolie steps in to make out with McAvoy for no apparent purpose other than to make him look super awesome in front of his ex. In order to prevent that, the Fraternity preemptively kills them, usually in slow-motion heavy sequences of extreme death and destruction. The subtext of all these movies is pretty consistently toxic, but Wanted does Angelina Jolie a particularly poor service. So where was Wanted in the mix? 2008 was one of the more significant years in modern cinema, but Wanted is not one of its well-remembered components.