Great Del Toro, bad Clive Owen, often laughable

Rating: 1/10 (27 October 2010)

There is one strong acting performance in this film, but this is within also the unintentionally hilarious episode, the third, with the women. Benicio del Toro's acting is detailed while no-one else's is. Clive Owen has to spout some unintentionally hilarious dialog while failing to live down his innate Britishness, while makes him ridiculous. He doesn't carry off the dialog. He lets the side down. The women are super-funny, framed as they are by some dodgy writing. Alexis Bledel from Gilmore Girls is even worse, badly miscast. The first episode is Bruce Willis in an extremely weak waste of time of a section. Bruce doesn't really fit here either, seeming so old and powerless - the actor playing the part, not only the part itself. The next section has Mickey Rourke in a part that is very little more than superhero special effects. Far, far better than this is the film Watchmen, also using graphic novel as its source.