Wanted is an adaptation of a hit comic by Mark Millar and J.G Jones. The movie stars the aforementioned Jolie, James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman. McAvoy is a put upon office geek who suddenly finds out he has superpowers allowing him to become a badass assassin. Jolie and Freeman are his guides into the world of superpowered killing sprees.

The plot doesn’t matter much more than that, really. It comes in single, two-disc and Blu-Ray of course. There’s also a collector’s set that will lighten your pockets by nearly $70. It comes with a photo booklet, movie postcards and a framed 3-D cell.

Slipping in theaters this summer with considerably less hoopla was The X-Files:I Want to Believe. The reunion of Mulder and Scully took too long for audiences to care anymore. This one slipped in and out of the cinema quicker than those sneaky aliens Mulder’s always looking for.

Images: The X-Files: I Want to Believe, 20th Century-Fox Film Corp., 2008

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But nonetheless Speed Racer, Hulk, Wall-E, Wanted and Hancock are all outta here. I can’t blame SFUniverse fans. The fact that somebody considered making Speed Racer into a film scares me immensely. Although not as much as nobody caring about Wanted. Have we finally reached our limit about movies with Angelina Jolie wielding huge guns? I hope not, that would mean that as a society, we’re a little dead inside.

Now here’s what we’re gonna do. The remaining films are going to keep fighting it out in polls until there are only two left, and the one standing will be SFUniverse’s most anticipated movie of the summer. We will crown it with laurels and throw a parade in its honor. Well, maybe not, but we’ll buy it a cookie or something.

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