Pathetic

Rating: 5/10 (22 April 2005)

Everyone hails this movie as BOLD and REVOLUTIONARY.
Let us not forget that this director directed such bold and revolutionary movies as SPY KIDS (not just one...but the whole trilogy) and Once Upon a Time in Mexico.
Let us not forget that this writer wrote such great graphic novels as Daredevil and Elektra.
How BOLD! How REVOLUTIONARY! More like pathetic.
As for the color/ special effects, hats off to computers. But I've been there done that. Let's see...Pleasantville did it better, Schindler's List was much more meaningful, and movies like Amelie make use of color MUCH better.
So for American audiences...congratulations welcome to a world already discovered. A moving comic adaption so true to its graphic novel form?! I can make pictures talk on my computer too. This movie is a mere TRANSLATION of the work of Miller. There is nothing new in a TRANSLATION, on a mirror-image or a reflection. There was no creative input and Miller is no amazing writer, he plays to things that so extreme, we can't help but discuss them as being, "BOLD AND REVOLUTIONARY" It means nothing if you contradict the norm or status quo, you are still slave to it just as pop culture is. It's pathetic eye candy that does nothing to expand American cinema.
The only reason I gave this movie a 5/10 was because of the promise it holds in computer graphics, which has more promise than the direction and acting in this movie combined.