Wanted: A Smarter Trailer

If you watched the Super Bowl, you saw a trailer for "Matrix 4". Or "Wanted." One would be excused for not being able to tell the difference.

Here is a different trailer for "Wanted," in which Morgan Freeman tries to make something stupid sound really, really serious. In his best Matrix voice, he asks a young man if he wishes to "remain ordinary, pathetic, beat down, coasting through a miserable existence like sheep" or to "take control of his own destiny... releasing the caged wolf you have inside." (Umm, can I think about it and get back to you tomorrow?)

As Morgan intones the final question--"Sheep or wolf?"--the trailer makes sure to remove all doubt, as if the people who produced the trailer were afraid we dumb moviegoers might mistake the movie for a drama and not a thriller.

Perhaps this movie will be fun, but it looks more like a dumb, derivative flick that will kill the momentum James McAvoy is receiving from his performance in "Atonement".