Pretty poor - What is up with Hollywood nowadays??

Rating: 2/10 (16 March 2005)

Okay - In summary, this film is poor. It's yet another comic book adaption that seems to have been twisted around to fit an all to familiar Hollywood pile of crap.
Keanu Reeves couldn't act his way out of a cardboard box - most of us are aware of that, especially as he never seems to be more than 5 seconds away from spitting out "dude!" at the end of a sentence. In this movie it gets worse, he's now decided the best way to act serious is to lower your voice and speak slllloooowwwwllllyyy. It also seems Rachel Weisz has visited the Keanu Reeves School of Acting, as she seems to be taking his lead popularising this new and inventive Reeves-ism (yes I am being sarcastic).
The plot is thin and ill-conceived with virtually no character development and definitely no respect for the original idea (the comic). I couldn't give a damn who lived and who died, in fact I'd have preferred to have seen the CGI devil rise up and kill everyone (then himself cos he'd probably have been poorly executed too). The screenplay is poorly written with some lines that seem to have come from the Arnold Schwarzenegger Academy for Cr4p One-Liners.
It's about time Hollywood took a good look at itself and stopped putting the $$$$ ahead of the art of film-making. Take a good look at Japan, South-Korea and the rest of the world - see what gems their film industries are making with one-hundredth of the budget...
A poorly conceived and executed film by a bunch of idea-rapers who could not write a story for toffee.
Boooo.