Wanted

About a thousand years ago, a guild of weavers discovered that the seemingly random flaws in their fabric encoded the names of individuals who would do more harm than good if left alive. So the weavers also trained themselves as assassins -- not killers for hire, rather killers assigned by fate to remove undesirable persons.

In the present day, one of the guild's assassins has gone rogue and started killing the members of the guild. To remedy the situation, the guild recruits Wesley Gibson (JamesMcAvoy ), the son of one of the recently murdered weavers.

The plot follows pretty typical lines of the normal boy who finds out he has some unusual heritage -- think Harry Potter, but with school condensed down to a few weeks. The boy learns about his heritage, has a rough transition period into his inherited role, and must somehow use his new skills to defeat the evil that threatens his inherited lifestyle. Usually much of the plot centers on the character learning about the new world he has joined, and Wanted follows that path. Over half of the film centers on Wesley training to take his place in the guild of assassins. Wesley doesn't have much fun training, but the film moves the story along with a nice combination of explosions, rapid-fire gunfights, chase scenes, and the discovery of cool and interesting things about the weavers' heritage and skills. You don't get a lot of deep thought out of Wanted, but you do get a fun, adolescent romp filled with plenty of action.