Visually stunning, painful to listen to

Rating: Null/10 (7 April 2008)

I think my title line sums it up. The whole movie was visually stunning, well done, blah blah blah, but the text was so clumsily and horribly delivered that it ruined the movie for me. I KNOW it's based on a comic book, and was pretty faithful to it, but couldn't they have made the spoken part of it a bit more natural? Does Gerard Butler not know that his mouth is crooked when he talks (in a role and in real life)? What about the lame, nondescript accents? I suspended my historical disbelief, realizing that it's more of a mythical/fantasy subject than historical, but could they not have delivered all aspects with the gorgeous conviction of the visual one?