And on I Go, to Another One Who'll Disappoint Me So: Movie Review of "Wanted"

*Fiona Apple

Ok so why do awesome movies have to sabotage themselves with laziness? I went to see Wanted and it was awesome. The stunts made me want to go into the business. I was ready to begin my jiu-jitsu training and advanced driving classes. I mean, i felt like a badass leaving the theatre. The CGI? Awesome. There was only one shot that broke the illusion of reality.

But there was something that I just couldn't get past so as to fully immerse myself in the world of mesmerizing violence and superhuman physical ability. What was that something? The f word. It was used constantly in the beginning and constantly toward the end. Strangely enough, the middle section (where most of the action took place) was nearly devoid of the "hardcore" f-bomb. News flash to Hollywood: Using that word does not make you a badass.

Crutches like this, and gratuitous and extremely graphic sex scenes, encourage me to make this accusation of laziness. It doesn't take the brains of Ernest Hemingway to write f**k 75 times in a script, nor the ability of Steven Spielberg to throw in an unnecessary and disgusting display of meaningless sex intended for nothing more than pure shock value.

So, although James McAvoy is deliciously captivating, and although the ever-gorgeous Angelina Jolie again convinced women everywhere that they too can hang with the boys, I left the theatre disappointed in the "genius" of Hollywood. All the talent and skill from the few who made it out of the legions of those who did not. Wasted. On laziness and apathy.

"In lazy apathy let stoics boast
Their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost;
Contracted all, retiring to the breast;
But strength of mind is exercise, not rest."
-Alexander Pope