Too literal?

Rating: 9/10 (2 April 2005)

I loved this movie! My one gripe is , having read all of the source material, I knew exactly what was going to happen next. It's kind of like going to see a band like the Eagles who are so precise in their re-creation of a song (right down to the guitar solos) that there is no surprise left. That being said, the look and feel of the film was nothing short of astonishing and I'm more than happy to be able, finally, to "complain" about a film-from-comic being utterly faithful to the source material. Kevin Smith commented several years ago that the reason there weren't any really good adaptations of comic books to film was due to the studio higher-ups tinkering with a proved story to the point that it no longer resembled what had made it so popular in the first place! That is obviously not the case here and I can't wait for the sequel so I can be "unsurprised" some more.