God awful, astoundingly boring

Rating: 1/10 (7 April 2009)

I have rarely spent such a boring time at the movie theater, as there is so little substance to this film past the color special effects. Five minutes into the movie, you find yourself mentally screaming at the screen: "WE GET IT! You wanted to replicate the printed version verbatim!". And this film solely relies on this trick to entertain.
There is really little more to this film than the color gimmick. Unfortunately, the writers/director did not want to put one second of thought into how to adapt the printed version for the screen. A comic is not the same thing as a movie. You need to put some depth into the characters, the situations, the story, mostly because films have this ability to carry a enormous amount of information, details, imagery, and audiences expect it as such. Here, the people in charge simply chose to transpose everything as is, hence the enormous void of story, detail, content, and why the whole thing moves at a murderously slow pace.
And such a waste of so many good actors. A bunch of nobodies could have done the trick just as well. Somehow you can see how they have no real idea what to do, where to go, what their purpose is, and just in for the paycheck.
This film could have been a glory of style over content, if only the style didn't bore beyond the first 5 minutes.