surprisingly good comic adaption (there aren't many out there)

Rating: 7/10 (17 August 2005)

Since there are so many bad user comments about this flick here I decided to do my personal opinion about the movie.
First the movie is mainly about the comic and thats why you should bring the right alignment to it. Adapting a comic is never easy because you get a high chance of pissing the die hard comic fans off.
As for me I never read the comics but enjoyed the movie. Personally I found the most popular comic adaptions very boring. Spiderman, X-Men, Hellboy and so on were very boring stuff. Batman 1, The Punisher and this movie here are definitely the better ones. As for Keanu Reeves it's not his best role but he does a OK job about the careless chain smoking Anti Hero in this flick. I would say he plays as usual. The part of Mr. Lucifer himself is probably the best part in the movie and also pretty funny. Another thing I noticed being positive is the soundtrack. You will mainly get instrumental music which suits the film. And you won't be annoyed by pointlessly placed cheap pop music from the category "product placement".
In the end it seems that mainly the religious US people have problems with the movie and therefore give em bad reputation. For me it's mainly a comic adaption and with that aspect in mind this movie is pretty entertaining and worth your time.