In my opinion it was the worst comic to movie translation that has ever been done. They could have just changed the name of the characters, named it something else, and I would have never even associated it with Wanted. They only took some very basic ideas and only based a handful of scenes on anything from the comic. As a standalone action movie it was phenomenal… except for the end scene with fox… that was lame. Even the loom only took a small amount of my magic suspension-of-disbelief powder. But everything else made it a pretty kick ass action movie, I just wish it would have been called something else and maybe just put a blurb at the end of the movie “Based on the comic blah blah blah”.

So, major ups on the raw, biting villainous power displayed throughout it – but the lead needs to learn a few better words than fuck fuck fuck. I don’t know – maybe retaining a 14 year old vocabulary was one of the underlying themes of the story that I missed out on.

@ Shua – I agree about the movie. I doubt the it will follow the book too strongly. Judging by the trailers I’ve seen it seems like they switched it around and the “assassins” are actually good guys – or at least working to keep everyone else alive, which is just lame. The part that really stuns me is that, like you said, there seemed to be only 2-3 characters from the book. Considering the book is based around a slew of super villains, the majority of which are non-human or in costume, it’ll be interesting (and I’m sure disappointing) to see what they replace them with.