By Kofi Outlaw

When I heard that one of my favorite graphic novels of recent years, Mark Millar’s WANTED, was getting a big-screen makeover I was psyched. When I saw the first trailer for the film I was double-psyched: Angelina Jolie as a hot assassin, Morgan Freeman involved, kick-ass action sequences, bullets flying every which way. And I do mean EVERY which way.

However, it seems that I was one of the few people pleased with what I saw, as WANTED got slammed on the internet as being a “Matrix knock-off” and such, which will most likely happen to every action flick of the next decade that dares to do slow-motion (sarcasm alert.) For those not familiar, WANTED tells the story of a slacker (James McAvoy) who discovers he is the son of a legendary assassin, able to perform feats of manslaughter that even RAMBO would envy.
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Universal, the studio behind WANTED, recently gave a big middle finger to the Internet’s bitch-and-moan elite, shifting the film from its original March 28th debut to a June 27th release—the dead heat of the summer blockbuster season. Such a move can only be seen as a show of immense support and confidence on Universal’s part, believing that WANTED can cap both VALKYRIE, the WWII thriller starring Tom Cruise, and Pixar’s CGI feature WALL-E, to cash in at the summer box office.

Watch the trailer for yourself and rant back to let us know if WANTED will slaughter the competition on June 27, or if Universal has just shot itself in the foot.