100 Greatest Comic Book Movies Of All Time
73. Wanted
"What if bullets could bend?" is the beginning and end of Wanted's appeal, but thankfully the movie version wrote James McAvoy's Wesley Gibson with an air of Fight Club's Narrator about him.
The comic panel-aping shot of him braining a workplace bully with a keyboard is the perfect primer for an entire flick of training montages and bullet-bending kills that warp around structures and across cities.
McAvoy is joined by an Angelina Jolie who's having way too much fun, and a Morgan Freeman relishing his powerful position as the bullet-wizard supreme.
In the end, Wanted's pace makes up for its lack of meaningful story beats, and every curve shot kill is just shot well enough to keep things moving.
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72. The Losers
One of those 6/10 gems that you randomly find on a Saturday night's Netflix search, and realise it's pretty damn watchable.
The reasons come from a solid cast comprising Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chris Evans, Zoe Saldana and Idris Elba - not to mention a raucous revenge-fuelled plot that lets the aforementioned drop some "smash cut-into-one liner-into-montage" sequences every 20 minutes.
It will NEVER win any awards - and doesn't even succeed off pure editing or script like Smokin' Aces or Lucky Number Slevin respectively - but as a solid flick with some great flair, you can do far worse.
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71. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
Okay, so, not only does Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) have just about the best tie-in movie song ever in Partners in Kryme’s Turtle Power (Vanilla Ice’s Ninja Rap is a demonstrable step-down, by the way), it has a great story, tremendous practical effects, and every child’s dream secret lair in the Foot Clan’s hideout.
There aren’t many Turtles films worth watching, but out of the few that are, the 1990 feature is definitely the best. It captures the spirit of the comic, the humour of the animated series, and it does so with some truly splendid puppetry from Jim Henson’s Creature Shop.
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