Wanted

i watched the movie wanted yesterday. it's a great film, but it's also sad.

got this from wikipedia:
"Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy), who works as an accounts manager in a firm, is offered the opportunity to change his monotonous and unrewarding life by avenging the murder of his father, a member of a thousand-year-old secret society of assassins called the Fraternity who follow death orders issued by the Loom of Destiny. The group's leader, Sloan (Morgan Freeman), invites Gibson to follow in his father's footsteps. Sloan appoints assassin Fox (Angelina Jolie) to mentor the young man. When Fox meets Wesley, he is being followed by the man that killed his father. After a narrow escape, Fox and the Fraternity begin to train Wesley. The training is brutal. It is meant to harden Wesley into the killing machine that the Fraternity needs.

Once he has completed his training, Wesley is given orders to kill people he does not know. Before going on his first assignment, he questions Fox, "How do we know who is bad or good?" She answers by telling him her story. Her father was a judge. An assassin was sent to their house. He killed her father in front of her by setting him on fire. The assassin then branded her on the neck. It turns out that the assassin had been targeted for assassination several weeks prior, but the assassin who was assigned to kill him failed to do so. Fox then explains that is what the Fraternity does: kill one, and save a thousand. Wesley then proceeds to kill his first target. He is then given several more targets to take out.

After being shot by his father's killer, Wesley analyzes the bullet and finds out where it came from. He is given the go ahead by Sloan to find the bullet maker. Fox admits to Sloan that she believes it to be a bad idea. Sloan then hands Fox a new order from the Loom, commanding her to kill Wesley. He travels to Europe to find the maker. Once there, he has a confrontation with his father's killer on a moving train. The train crashes on a bridge connecting two cliffs, but when Wesley is about to fall, his father's killer catches his hand, holding on to him. However. Wesley does not hesitate and fatally shoots him, even though it would cost Wesley his life, as he is still hanging over the edge. The train finally plunges and gets stuck between the two cliffs, but Wesley manages to survive inside. Before the killer dies, he tells Wesley that he is Wesley's father. Fox comes out of the shadows and confirms the story. Wesley makes a narrow escape, diving to the water below. He is rescued by the bullet maker, Pekwarsky (Terence Stamp), and wakes up across the street from his former apartment. Pekwarsky tells Wesley that Sloan is making killings for profit instead of following the Loom's messages. He also tells Wesley that his father wanted him to have a normal life instead of that of an assassin.

Wesley then plots revenge. He captures several hundred rats and places mini bombs on them. He crashes a garbage truck into the Fraternity compound, which dumps the rats who run off all over the compound. After all the rats explode, he charges in, killing all the Fraternity members he encounters. When he reaches Sloan's office, he is immediately surrounded by Fox and a few other high level assassins. Wesley tells them that Sloan is killing for profit by providing his killers with fake instructions from the Loom. Fox asks Sloan if this is true. He states that what is true is that all of their names came up as targets. By doing what he did, he had saved their lives because each and every last assassin in the room's name's had come up in the loom of fate. He goes on to say that, if they really believe in the code, then they should all commit suicide. After contemplating, Fox shoots and curves the bullet's trajectory so that it kills all the Fraternity members in the room. The bullet completes the arc and the last person it hits is Fox herself. She drops to the floor dead. Wesley then goes after Sloan, but he's gone.

Time passes and Wesley tricks Sloan into believing that he has returned to his former life. Sloan goes to Wesley's former place of employment intending to kill him, only to find a decoy, calling back the beginning scene of the movie. The real Wesley takes him out with a mile-long sniper shot. The film ends comically by Wesley asking the audience, 'What the fuck have you done lately?'"