Corrected entry: When Mister X steps into the elevator to get a better sprint to the window, he sits down as if he's in a starting-block. This would provide him with a more powerful and faster sprint. But the moment he makes the first step to run, he lands on his heel. This takes away all the tension and speed he got from starting in that position, because by landing on his heel he blocks himself. Besides, if he was able to land on his heel, that would mean he was standing up straight after he started. But if you really want the best out of your starting position you stay low for as long as possible, and that would make it very difficult to land on your heel; considering you're leaning forward in the starting block position and staying low while you run. Most people automatically run on the palms of their feet while sprinting, which is the proper way. (00:04:00)
Tailkinker
18th Sep 2009
Wanted (2008)
26th Jun 2009
Wanted (2008)
Corrected entry: For Wesley's second kill, he didn't have to go through the trouble of flipping his car over the limo to get a shot. He could just simply make a curved bullet shot to make the bullet go through the sunroof and hit his target. Guess there's no wow factor in seeing one curved bullet kill after another.
Correction: We don't know what limitations lie on the bullet curving. It may well be that a shot like that, requiring the bullet to curve upwards, then make a very sharp turn downwards to go through the sunroof straight downwards, is not possible - certainly no shot seen in the film is that complex. Choosing to flip the car over the top to get a direct line-of-sight gives Wesley a simple shot. Not unreasonable that he would choose that.
21st Jan 2009
Wanted (2008)
Corrected entry: When Wesley translates the piece of cloth it says 'Sloan', whereas every other name is the person's real name with the codename written above it.
9th Jul 2008
Wanted (2008)
Corrected entry: Wesley comments on how he needs an ergo-keyboard as a result of his repetitive stress syndrome, but when he finally goes off in his office, he smashes his best friend, Barry, in the face with a standard, flat keyboard (which he then hands off to a guy entering the building).
Correction: Incorrect. It's an ergonomic keyboard.
4th Aug 2008
Wanted (2008)
Corrected entry: Towards the end of the movie, so this is a spoiler. Angelina Jolie does a circular bullet shot using her right hand to shoot in an anticlockwise direction. ***Spoiler alert*** It goes all the way around and hits her on the right side. Should be going in the left side.
Correction: The gun's in her left hand, she sends the bullet to her left, it goes clockwise round the room and hits her from her right, exactly as it should do.
17th Jul 2008
Wanted (2008)
Corrected entry: Near the end of the film, Fox shoots every remaining member of the Fraternity, including herself, with a single curved bullet. The idea that a single bullet fired from a handgun could penetrate through-and-through the heads of a dozen adults - something that most heavy-duty rifles couldn't do - is simply impossible and incomprehensible.
Correction: You're unhappy about the idea of a bullet passing through the heads of a dozen adults, while being fine with the fact that it's travelling in a circle, which many people would say was, well, to use your phrase, impossible and incomprehensible? The Fraternity members routinely do things with bullets that violate the standard laws of reality, this is simply another example of that ability.
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Correction: Most people are not capable of running so fast that they can leap the gap between skyscrapers; most people cannot bend bullets round corners. His running style doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to do the job, which, as we see, it does. Anything else is merely an opinion, which rarely amounts to a valid mistake.
Tailkinker ★