A great movie, but hardly for everyone.

Rating: 9/10 (26 June 2006)

I think I can understand how many people seem to have a rather poor opinion of the movie. Some previous knowledge about the game series and the world in them is probably necessary to really enjoy it or the events shown may seem rather bizarre, unconnected and way too rapidly evolving. The latter may also seem that way because as far as I know, an hour of the original footage was cut out in order to shorten the movie to two hours. Some may notice that some less significant frames shown in the trailer were cut out from the theatric version and I really hope to see them on the DVD.
If you really want to have a chance to see the movie as it was intended, I'd like to suggest reading up or better yet - playing the games. There's a marvelous world you could discover, chilling with it's dark secrets and fascinating with it's deep plot lines. It would be a shame to miss out on it.