The TV Addict 

Now that the second trailer for WANTED has hit the net, I think I’m ready to come clean: I’m really looking forward to it. Yes, it looks like it’s going to be little more than excessive and indulgent displays of unbelievable over-the-top action with barely enough plot points to string them cohesively together. Yes, that curving bullet thing is not nearly as cool as the move thinks it is (I mean how many times did the trailer show it?), especially since THE MATRIX has made slow-motion bullet sequences pretty blasé at this point. Yes, it might even turn out to be bad.

But the thing is, sometimes I’m a sucker for just this kind of visceral action film. All that insanely choreographed car action stuff in the trailer, as ridiculous as it may be, entertains the heck out of me, even if the gun fights seem a bit lackluster based on the trailer. But having Angelina Jolie star in a role that is prime material for accentuating her hotness helps that a bit.

Now, a lot of comic book readers are griping that film barely even resembles the Mark Millar series it’s based on. While I understand the frustration in seeing something one likes not adapted properly – and let’s face it, the creators could have just done this without buying the rights for the comic and not suffered any consequences – I’m not sure what these comic book fans really want. Do they seriously think anyone in Hollywood was going to loyally adapt a comic that is so nihilistic that it’s enough to make FIGHT CLUB blush? Let alone a comic that really shoves its anti-hero elements in your face to the point where you can’t really sympathize with anyone? Sure, the comic made it fun to root for the bad-guy in its own way, but by the end of it got tired and old. Also, I’m pretty sure Hollywood would grimace at a super villain who was a living piece of feces (then again, DOGMA did it). I suppose what comic book fans were at least hoping for is that the adaptation would maintain the superhero/super-villain element, when this one seems to cast that aside except for some super-hero like displays of abilities.

So yes, comic book fans, it perhaps sucks the film deviates so far from the original source material, but what were you really expecting?