No standing ovations at all

Rating: 4/10 (29 March 2007)

I also was among those people who were allowed to see the world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. I had a press accreditation, so I could see the movie at the press screening in the afternoon, a few hours before the actual premiere at Berlinale Palast in the evening.
My experience was quite different: we didn't need to have the presentation interrupted since instead of standing ovations there was laughter and many people already left the scene during the screening. At the end, some of the remaining people booed it out, only some others applauded. The main part of the audience might have felt like I did: big expectations, a big movie on a big screen, galleons of blood, but inside the whole thing there isn't enough meaning to fill a bottle of beer. It's a great show for those who loved the graphic novel, I guess, but for the rest of mankind the movie will be one of those you will not miss in case you do.