 Caryn James for "The New York Times" began her "Wired" review with the words, "There is almost no excuse for "Wired", a film so devastatingly dull that it seems longer than John Belushi's whole career," before adding "audiences do not like their pop icons tampered with, and in biographical films such tampering is inevitable.Audiences bring to such films vivid images of people they feel they know, and they have consistently rejected films that fail to reflect that image... Any weeknight, viewers can turn on television reruns of the "Saturday Night Live" shows that made Belushi famous.And no matter how much Michael Chiklis, the star of "Wired," resembles Belushi, his Killer Bee and his Joe Cocker imitation are no match for the highly visible, memorable, syndicated originals."