Wanted (2008)

It's divisive. Only 66% of audiences liked it based on 7,488 votes. Critics agree, scoring it 68%.

Doormat Wesley Gibson is an office worker whose life is going nowhere. He meets an attractive woman named Fox and discovers that his recently murdered father - whom Wesley never knew - belonged to the Fraternity, a secret society of assassins which takes its orders from Fate itself. Fox and Sloan, the Fraternity's leader, teach Wesley, through intense training, to tap into dormant powers and hone his innate killing skills. Though he enjoys his newfound abilities, he begins to suspect that there is more to the Fraternity than meets the eye. Wikipedia ↗

Wanted is a 2008 American action thriller directed by Timur Bekmambetov, loosely based on Mark Millar's comic book series. James McAvoy stars as Wesley Gibson, a cubicle-dwelling, anxiety-medication-popping nobody in Chicago who discovers he is the son of a legendary assassin and is recruited by the Fraternity — a thousand-year-old guild of assassins led by Sloan, played by Morgan Freeman — and trained by Fox, played by Angelina Jolie, to avenge his father's death. Timur Bekmambetov's hyperkinetic action sequences pushed physics into the realm of pure fantasy — assassins curve bullets around obstacles by flicking their wrists, cars flip over other cars in coordinated maneuvers, and characters heal from devastating injuries by soaking in wax baths.

The bullet-curving scenes became the film's signature visual and cultural contribution. James McAvoy's transformation from a pathetic office drone to a confident killer was entertainingly over-the-top. Wanted earned $341 million worldwide on a $75 million budget.