I've read the comic, and it's just a stupid as the trailer looks. Just maybe not in the same way. The book is a bunch of "hard-core", in your face, bad-assery with main characters designed off of Eminem and Halle Berry. Reading it was a strange experience, as it was trying to sell these characters as rock-star, anti-heroes while really they're the kind of douche bags I try to avoid at the bars.

"There is a place for such things. It's called summer." Beautiful. I don't really have anything substantial to add, except that I agree with the above poster — Mark Millar managed to create one of the worst comics I've ever read, a miniseries populated by what was perhaps the most unlikeable cast ever assembled. PS: Ever. I wish this film featured Ethan Suplee as the shit monster, though.

Is Angelina Jolie capable of making a decent movie? If this movie doesn't completely flop then I will lose all faith in humanity.

Can we call a moratorium on 'losing faith in humanity' based on the success or failure of movies. If your faith in humanity is based on the Friday night movie going habits of the average American, you are a way sadder human being than anyone sitting in the theaters. Hyperbole is so plebeian.

Christ in a hat, this movie looks terrible. Curve your kiss to my ass, any fan of useless drivel like this.

I'm sure Mike Logan will love this.

Ok the only thing this movie has got going for it is some Angelina T&A imho. As far as the comic goes you guys dont know a good comic if it boned ya up the ass like your boyfriend, Wanted was a kick ass comic and the cast was unlikeable stupid, they were all super villians yeesh guess someone is sellin a box of stupid for a low low price and comment 1 and 2 are buying it all up.

I agree with Joe, and comments 1&2 must have gotten the buy one-get one free sale. There is not a single "good guy" in the book, and that’s just fine with me. While I am disappointed that they changed a book with evil feeding on itself, and while not an extremely complicated plot, it’s certainly better than the drivel Hollywood translated it to.

Looks like it could be a fun bit of drivel. This is one of those movies you turn your brain off once it starts, right? I'll keep that in mind while watching it.

@Comment2: It was a comic book about SUPER VILLIANS. They're supposed to be unlikeable.

There's a reason it's an extremely loose adaptation: the comic is a very stupid and juvenile execution of a really good concept (all superheroes are dead and a cabal of supervillains secretly run things). It reads like it was written by a 12 year old who finally got up the courage to curse for the first time and is overdoing it.

The object of the comic was to point out that you, the audience, are morons for wanting films and comics about idiots who discover they have super-powers –and super-lame for wanting said idiots to be played by the biggest hollywood stars. It's a pretty acidic statement, and I'm guessing they'll omit that theme from the film -they wouldn't want to piss people off who just dropped 10 bucks on their film. I know my initial reaction to the comic was "I just wasted 15 bucks on a comic that just told me I was a moron for picking it up to begin with?"

A story populated by villians isn't an excuse for characters lacking charisma or depth…it's revealing of the comic industry when people defend something just for being different and not based on fundamental story qualities.

As kids we'd always act out the movies. Unfortunately, it lead to a traumatic childhood experience I'm still struggleing to talk about. Thanks for nothing SOUTHERN COMFORT.

I was a fan of the comic, and while I'm not going to defend it and say "You don't know what you're talking about! You should like the same stuff as me! Grrrr!", I am still puzzled as to why they even made a "Wanted" movie if they were going to take so many liberties with it. It looks like there's very little left of the original material past the premise, especially since they seemingly axed all of the elements that made fun of superhero comics and conventions, which makes up a pretty large chunk of the story. The premise isn't TOO unique that it couldn't have been re-worked into something that suited the story that they really wanted to tell, which would have saved them from having to write Mark Millar a check and would have left the door open for a more faithful adaptation further down the road. It reminds me of "Catwoman" in a way, like how if you know the source material at all, you know that this really doesn't look or seem anything like it. OK, nothing will ever TOUCH "Catwoman" in terms of pure cluelessness, but still, I think that THAT is probably the biggest misfire ever when it comes to wasting what should have been a moneymaking property.

when I was a kid me and my friends had a favorite film that we would always act out.

unfortunately that film was deliverance…

I had a horrific childhood.

and if kids impressionable enough to try the tricks in this film have easy access to hand guns to try them out with their buddies there is already a big enough problem there

My friends and i loved to goof off and act out A Clockwork Orange. What were we thinking!?! Good times.

Back at school I used to act out Max hardcore's Extreme School girls 7 with my 14 year old girl friend all the time. She complained her poophole hurt but I didn't give a fuck. Ohhh Yeahhh.

I can't wait!!!! Looks like a Popcorn movie. Everything that Shoot'Em Up Should have been,