Angelina Jolie plays the sexy and deadly assassin "Fox" in "Wanted."

James McAvoy (”Atonement” and “The Last King of Scotland”) stars as Wesley Gibson.

Surprisingly, "Wanted" isn't the shoot-em-up film one would expect after watching its trailer. That's not to say there isn't a ton of violence, blood splattering and gun firing in the film, it's just not "Rambo: First Blood Part II."

It is the protypical guy movie - one created by guys, designed for guys and watched by guys (unless the girlfriends and wives are forced to come).

James McAvoy ("Atonement" and "The Last King of Scotland") plays Wesley Gibson - a 25 year old who works in a cubical and hates his dismal, meaningless job (a la "Office Space"). His female boss emasculates him more than once daily, his girlfriend ignores he exists and is having an affair with his "best friend," who also works in the same cubical as him.

The outlet of Wesley's life is bleak. It's certain this anxiety attack prone slacker would amount to little, if not nothing. He would have surely die in his slow, clock-punching rut until he is saved from his life by Fox (Angelina Jolie).

After his estranged father is murdered, Wes is hand picked by the "Fraternity" leader Sloan (Morgan Freeman) to avenge his dad's death by unlocking his dormant powers.

The sexy and deadly Fox recruits Wes into the "Fraternity," a secret society that trains assassins to kill those whose name appears in binary code woven into a tapestry. As Fox teaches Wes how to develop lightning-quick reflexes, phenomenal agility and a mastery of weapons and there use, Wes discovers this team lives by an ancient, unbreakable code: carry out the death orders given by fate itself.

When name after name is given to Wes to assassinate, he becomes angered by not receiving the name of the man who killed his father. He then wavers between his newfound heroism and vengeance.

As he grows more and more powerful and begins thinking for himself, Wes becomes a liability for Sloan, who turns the "Fraternity" against him.

Some may draw comparisons to "The Matrix" for the cutting-edge cinematography and the film delivers some new material and neat techniques - especially the bullet curving trick. However, you can tell the director fell in love with the neat special effect because it's done about 10 times in the film.

"Wanted" has a nice mix of comedy, action, fantasy, adventure and crime. The movie begins and ends as an internal monologue/reflection of Wesley. He questions how and why his life has reached that point without ever really giving an answer besides "and then I met her (Fox)." The middle - a good chuck - of the film moves from his internal monologue to current happenings.

The car chase (one seen in the previews) is really well done, as are most of the action sequences. The only one which didn't seem to fit in as well was the train sliding off the tracks above a mountain overpass - but that's almost kit-picking.

The plot of the film is also pretty irrelevant - the main reason you want to see "Wanted" is the action/violence and for Jolie. The writers try to throw a curve in the film, but it's pretty obvious something is coming and can be spotted easily.