Well the wife likes Mr. McAvoy and Ms. Jolie is rather easy on the eys so, there's that, and it looks kinda sweet!

What more could I want?
Oh, a good movie.
Which this, in all odds, won't be.

James McAvoy is my new boyfriend fer rillz. I wish he could have curved some bullets in Atonement.

Looks like a very visually driven film. Let's just hope that the plot can keep up.

saw a teaser for this a couple of weeks ago, and one of the 13 yr old boys in the audience called his bud to tell him, "Dude! you just missed the awesomest trailer ever!"

No one beats Christian Bale when it comes to Gun-fu. Full stop (or period, whatever floats your boat).

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This was a better trailer than the one I saw in the theater last weekend. That one was basically the guy running down the street and getting scooped up by AJ in the red car. Nothing whatsoever about super-assassins, gun-fu, and picking one's destiny.

Might actually go and see this now.

Sweet. A Viper. I'm a Mopar kind of guy.

This has been online for a couple of weeks now.... I saw this on IMDB. I agree with MysticleRogue, lets hope that the story can keep up.

I'd be more excited if it looked like this shared anything besides a name with the comic book it's supposedly based on, the excellent Mark Millar book Wanted.

@twreckx: So true! Good clip!!!

James McAvoy is badass for the Children of Dune mini so I'll see it for that reason. Also hot women (woman?) plus guns and explosions = if all else fails, Ill be entertained..

the league of extraordinarily attractive gentlemen (plus woman)

if the number of slow motion bullets in the movie exceeds the number of slow motion bullets in then there's not much chance of the plot keeping pace with the visuals.

Can I still ask for the faithful Millar adaptation?

While it may not be necessary, per se, I think it would end up a lot better than what this looks like.

The only thing this adaptation has going for it is that in the Wanted universe, this is the movie the Villians would release as a joke just to throw everyone off the scent of how things really are. So on that semi-meta level, great... I would've liked a comic accurate version, especially for the scene where Adam West gets fed to sharks because he's forgotten he really was Batman.

I haven't read the original graphic novel, so with that in mind I feel I'm ok to say that this looks retardedly fun in a Transporter kind of way.

@Annalee Newitz: As Log1c points out, he was in Children of Dune, so you've got an opening to do one of those triviagasms on that. No, really you should... he's come along way since Faun Tumnus ;-)

Gun Fu. Nobody beats John Woo for it. Equilibrium? The so called Gun Fu seemed to be "stand totally still in the center of a bunch of gunmen and flail."

This one is so much better. Spin the bullet? Seriously? Putting english on a bullet? You know that bullets spin already, right? It's called rifling. And we do it so they'll go straight.

I know that there's no way they can do the original story because it's way too comic book nerdy. But it feels like we traded it for substanceless style. And that doesn't go far with me.

looks like

(Chuck + Men in Black) / The Matrix

Wait, this is another comic book movie

*pokes Hollywood with Stick

Ey, wake up darnit!

Morgan Freeman is now the Obi-Wan of everything except LOTR, Harry Potter, and...well...Star Wars of course.

@CMG: lol! I could almost hear this kid say that... because I texted by friend the same thing!

bravo, another action film founded on shoddy utilitarian, quasi-hedonistic ethics saving the world. Another Hollywood dazzler no doubt. *cackle*
Yay for simple pleasures. :)

Please tell me this movie isn't going to rest on the ability to bend the trajectory of bullets. Or our willingness to go along with such a plot device. Please.

There's a headstone carver in Appallacia getting really excited about this movie.

@woodforbrains: Appalachia.

Why bother paying Millar royalities and licensing the product if the end result is something completely different?

Changing the story to a bog standrad Hollywood blockbuster worjed so well for the LXG movie after all

before i saw the trailer i would have put this as the flop of the year because it bears so little resemblance to the comic that they are advertising it as being from, but now well it might be a big hit. As long as they are prepared for every review in every scifi and comic mag to start with the complaint that it bears no relation to the comic that it is based on.
My main worry is the fact that it might just be too cool visuals without any bother to worry about a script, after all the comic was so good that changing so much the writers will have to justify every change.

Since this is based on something by Millar, I'm wondering how they're going to incorporate the usual message that the audience is a bunch of semi-functioning mouth-breathing idiots.

I mean if you are expecting to see a plausible story line this is not the movie to see. The viper's roof clipped a crack in the asphalt and it flipped over a gang of cop cars onto a tractor trailer (perfectly 4 point landing btw) and drove off. Oh, and the bending of bullets...

but uh, Angie drives a car with her feet and looks oh so sexy doing it. I'll be there.

That looks industrial-grade silly.

Not always a bad thing, but often.
-Kle.

I see Morgan Freeman and Samuel L. Jackson are competing for the title of "Most Token Black Guy In A Lily White Action Flick".

Pretty.

And I don't mean Angelina.