dark, beautiful, over-the-top

Rating: 10/10 (12 February 2006)

I'm not going to say much more than what everyone else has said about this film. Most faithful comic book adaptation to date. And yes ... best performance of Rouke's career.
I was a bit worried about this film. I've been a huge Miller fan since 1988 and I know what works on paper doesn't work on film. When I saw the pics of Yellow Bastard and Marv, I just didn't know what to think. Really didn't know it was going to completely take the look of the book and use it. And I'm not one of those people who loathed Robocop 2 ... I actually thought it was a pretty fun movie. But the third Robo film was completely terrible, and I fault that on the script written by Mr. Miller. I wasn't sure what people who weren't familiar with the source material would think about the movie. Well, it turns out that it works well whether you've heard of Marv and Goldie or not. Objectively, it's just a great beautiful looking film. Completely unique, violent but fun.
The scene with Bruce Willis in the jail cell is really haunting. It just looks like he's suspended in time, the worse kind of limbo and the viusals really help us connect with what he's going through as the years pass.