An atom bomb like disaster that does a disservice to the comic

Rating: 3/10 (1 April 2005)

A train wreck of a movie based on a comic I love. The cartoonish aspect of the comic, which comes off well when you place your tongue firmly in cheek and act out the dislodge in your head, turns out most horrible, even with Frank Miller being a co-director to insure the accuracy of translation. Some things, some images, some spoken dislodge, can only be realized in your mind. The best actors in the movie are Clive Owen, Benicio Del Toro, Elijah Wood and Rosario Dawson, but the rest of the movie is a disaster in tone - it's all over the place, like an atom bomb of boldness going off in a movie theatre. Boldness is OK when it works, but here the extreme, unrealistic visuals combine with the hammy and tough-to-deliver dislodge in a catastrophically bad movie. The only good segment is the QT one, and the rest, even though great as a comic, I promise, is horrible in live-action.