cynics beware, this may surprise you.

Rating: 7/10 (5 April 2002)

I went into this film with a skeptical frame of mind, I hadn't seen the original, but my friends were going to see it, so I tagged along, and what can I say, I was amazed. Of course, the plot is very weak, but I was expecting that, plus the action is so unrelenting, you don't really have time to think about it. I saw this movie in a cinema with newly installed Dolby Digital sound, and it put it to good use, the bone-snapping, skull-crunching, gut-ripping and decapitations all had a sickeningly loud noise which completely immerse you into the action on screen. Just when I thought that comic book adaptations were all doomed to be terrible, this one (although I don't know how faithful it is to the original comic) breaks the mould to be a thoroughly enjoyable piece of absolute nonsense.