The Reel Rejects - WANTED (2008) MOVIE REVIEW - THIS SLAPS WAY HARDER THAN WE EXPECTED! - FIRST TIME WATCHING!

Episode Date: March 20, 2026

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Citizens of the Reject Nation, I'm wanted. Tell them. We just watched Wanted. It was. Awesome. Yeah. We're going to talk about it.

Good times. But before we do that, a couple things. Number one, like, comment, subscribe. Yeah. If you're on Apple, Spotify, leave that five stars. Number two, we have a thank you to give. Prepper. Thanks for helping edit things down.

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True. Honestly, we have been ramping up and up and up all year. And then we're going to look at everything and see what we're going to do for 26, so leave your feedback over there about social stuff. All right, Tara, we're going to get to some patron questions, but before we do that, just a brief overview from you wanted, yay or nay? Yeah. Loved it.

Great action scenes. I've actually missed seeing Angelina Jolie on the screen. She hasn't been around in a minute. She's great. So is James McAvoy. I love the writing. Writing was really smart. There's some choice didn't see coming.

Loved it. Great time. Great pacing. Great editing. Well, behind the scenes, something here for a second. Okay. We're in a little bit of trouble because for some reason, they think that we're starting wanted at two,

but we didn't. And so I think they're filling in the dock now. Oh. Which is why we only have the... No, sometimes these are like off. Well, I mean, you might be right. Because you see how it says 2 o'clock? Mm-hmm.

I think it's fine. I mean, I can also check page. true, but. All right. I don't. Yeah. All right, while you're checking page on, let me tell you guys. Yeah.

My thoughts in the movie are that that was awesome. I'm like absolutely exhausted today and this kept my attention fully through. I'm going one back to back to back shoots today. And I was like, oh, wanted. How is this going to do? And listen, I thought that James McAvoy, I thought that I was going to be waving about Angelina and Jolie afterwards, which I am. But James McAvoy carried the F out of this movie.

I mean, he couldn't have been cool. or better. This was just like absolutely badass and like just better than I even thought that it could be. So let's get into Patreon questions. I think there's a couple extra of them in here. Okay. So let me just, yeah, let me just double check. Yeah.

Sorry, one second. I guess there's that she eject one. Captain is not in there, I don't think. Captain Sanrak. Hold on. Captain. Why don't I just read them straight from here? Craig.

Okay. Let's just read them straight from here. Go. And then, yeah, okay. Here we go. Thanks to the patrons. Captain Fernandez for wanted. This is an incredibly dumb movie. I mean that the best way possible, action scenes are utterly ridiculous,

but in a genre like this where everything they've done before ridiculousness is a virtue, are you guys surprised we didn't get a sequel, especially when you consider the comic book is based on shares the same universe as Kingsman and Kickass Series. I didn't know that.

I didn't know that. I'm a fan of Kingsman and I covered Kickass here for this channel. So that's really cool to know. That makes sense. It's in the same universe. I'm glad that you let us know this is a comic book. I didn't know that. And that makes sense too because remember at the beginning,

I was like, this is like a superhero thing with the glass jump. So that totally checks out. I actually didn't really find this dumb. I like, I get what you're saying where you can jump through the window and fly. And like, you know, bullets can bend and use the force. but I just found it dope. Yeah. I'm with you actually

and now that you've shared that it's considered a comic book it makes it even less dumb because it's like we've had the superhero aspects to it that you're like oh that all makes sense. To answer your question on are we surprised it didn't get a sequel?

I would say the answer is yes. Yeah, especially because of how it ends. Yeah, I thought for sure the way we're seeing it I was like oh there has to be a wanted two right? And I was excited to watch it with you. Yeah. Maybe we should make it. Dang, man.

Here we go. I love to. Jay Rushden. Question, who's your favorite actor in this movie? Because it was a large cast for the movie there. I mean, I don't really think there's ever a movie that you can say Morgan Freeman isn't your favorite actor in the movie. Like, you know, he's just like the greatest of all time. But I think it's probably other than that, James McFoy really steals it for me.

Me too. I was going to say, James. Of course. I mean, I just adore him. After that, it would be Angelina because she's great too. But James McAvoy is like the heart of this movie. He really is. I need you to scrolly-polioli.

Yes, yes. It's not paying attention. This one. Okay. Sanrak, what a fun absurdist movie this is to me. To me, this is, to me, hopefully to both of you too. What makes James McAvoy so damn charming is that too obvious a question? Okay, a two-part question.

What absurdist aspect of the movie? Did you like the most? I'm thinking of the keyboard you moment at the beginning, for example. I like that too. Did you, let's try what makes him so charming. Oh, God. I mean, he's...

Maybe because he has an accent, we know that, even though he does it in this. And the confidence. Yeah. He's also very funny. Like, and I think that it makes him very charming. Like in the line where he's like,

we can't kill this woman. It's a dead woman. She might be somebody's mom. And I laughed out loud. I know. I was like, that was great. He's also objectively hot.

Absolutely. So that does help with charm. And then we're talking about the absurdist aspects of the movie. Yeah, I liked it in the FU. Car and Train. Yeah, car and train was great.

Jumping out of the window. And she made fun of me. She's like, I know you think this is fast in the furious. And it didn't like legit happen. Although I did think she was going to find a way to jump the car on top of it, not go through it, but I'm fine with either. It was a great shout by you for sure. This isn't, Craig, this isn't specific to this movie, but I'm happy to answer this.

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Well, before I just say more useless words, Tara, anything else? No, I thought this movie was a lot of fun. There are a lot of comedic points in here where I laughed, except it didn't feel, corny because it's James McAvoy and he's very believable. So I love this movie. I'm like, yeah, I wanted, I'm glad I got to watch it with D Rocks and good times. Me too. All right. Later, Rejects.