Very disappointing

Rating: 8/10 (5 April 2004)

Perlman was great...inspired casting there and throughout, but the film bogs down very quickly into a series of CGI fights. Hints of what could have been an exciting plot get smothered into the never ending fight sequences and mediocre, half-realized characterizations.
This movie's about a half hour longer than it should have been, and the CGI sequences don't really serve the story that well.
Fans of the comic should be satisfied...it isn't a terrible adaptation but as a movie it falls flat. They tried a little too hard with this one to merge the occult backstory with the requisite action/fighting stuff. I'd cut at least one or two of the fights vs the "hound of destruction" character. By the third fight it got to be serious overkill. I came very close to walking out of this film just because the third act goes absolutely nowhere.