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Wanted
2008
· Movie
· 110 min
C
MEANRANK
66/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3033
- IMDb #2784
- Google retired #2084
- Rotten Tomatoes #2425
- Metacritic #2245
- Letterboxd #3737
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2667
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2631
- Metacritic Critics #2020
- Metacritic Audience #2645
- Criticker #2866
- Douban #1209
- Kinopoisk #3087
- AlloCiné #3319
- Trakt #2581
Every rating
36–84
out of 100
A frustrated office accountant discovers his murdered father was an elite assassin. He is recruited into the secret society of killers his father belonged to and trained by a veteran assassin to unleash his dormant lethal abilities. He must help them find the rogue agent who killed his father and is now targeting the society.
Details
- Director
- Timur Bekmambetov
- Writers
- Chris Morgan, Derek Haas, Michael Brandt
- Based on
- Wanted by Mark Millar
- Released
- 19 June 2008
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $75.0M
- Box office
- $342.5M
- Awards
- 1 win, 8 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 9 →1 win from 9 nominations across 6 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 2008 | Best Sound Editing | Wylie Stateman | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 2008 | Best Sound Mixing | Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño, and Petr Forejt | Nominee |
| Critics' Choice Awards 2008 | Best Action Movie | Nominee | |
| Screen Actors Guild Awards 2008 | Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble | Nominee | |
| Empire Awards 2008 | Best Sci-Fi/Superhero Movie | Winner | |
| MTV Movie Awards 2008 | Best Female Performance | Angelina Jolie | Nominee |
| MTV Movie Awards 2008 | Best Kiss | James McAvoy and Angelina Jolie | Nominee |
| MTV Movie Awards 2008 | Best WTF Moment | Curved Bullet Kill (Angelina Jolie) | Nominee |
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Academy Awards
2 nominations
| Best Sound Editing | Wylie Stateman | Nominee |
| Best Sound Mixing | Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño, and Petr Forejt | Nominee |
Critics' Choice Awards
1 nomination
| Best Action Movie | Nominee |
Screen Actors Guild Awards
1 nomination
| Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble | Nominee |
Empire Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Sci-Fi/Superhero Movie | Winner |
MTV Movie Awards
3 nominations
| Best Female Performance | Angelina Jolie | Nominee |
| Best Kiss | James McAvoy and Angelina Jolie | Nominee |
| Best WTF Moment | Curved Bullet Kill (Angelina Jolie) | Nominee |
Saturn Awards
1 nomination
| Best Fantasy Film | Nominee |