Simply Amazing!!!

Rating: 10/10 (4 April 2005)

This is one of the wildest movies I've seen within the last five years. It's dark, gritty, violent, funny (at times), bloody, sad, and over-the-top, all at the same time. This makes it a heck of a lot of fun. My eyes never left the screen.
The look of the film makes it interesting to watch with the splashes of color (mainly blood) thrown in here and there. It gives the film an uber-cool, highly stylized feel. It is so close to a comic book that you can practically imagine someone turning the pages as you watch. Since it's based on Frank Miller's graphic novels, the movie also doesn't shy away from it's graphic subject matter, which includes cannibalism, rape, and pedophilia. While some might find this disturbing, it only adds to the film's dark and sinful themes.
The characters are wildly entertaining. Usually in comic book movies, the characters are one-dimensional and boring. Not so here. The acting is great, especially by the three leading men, Marv (Mickey Rourke, in an outstanding performance), Dwight, and Hartigan. Marv is one of the coolest badass characters to come across the screen in the last ten years. He's a hulking behemoth of a man that is cool and could probably beat the crap out of anyone. Each of them commands the screen and you can't take your eyes off of them. The stand-out females are Gail, Goldie/Wendy, and Miho. You would not want to cross these women. Miho can kill you before you even know she's there. All of the characters are excellent and with an A-list cast like this, you can't lose.
The gore and special effects are absolutely fantastic. On the gore end, we have everything you can imagine! It's graphically violent with lots of blood and body parts flying around. This includes, but is not limited to decapitations, impaling, stabbings, nasty bullet hits, chunky flesh bites, a gooey head smashing, dismemberments, and some bone-shattering punches. And I enjoyed every minute of it! The effects are excellent, though a few definitely look computer generated. The coolest ones are the brutal car crashes and the ear-shattering explosions.
Hands down to Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller for creating one of coolest and most enjoyable films in a long time! I haven't been this excited and enjoyed a film so much since Blade II came out in 2002!
The Bottom Line:
A highly-stylized, graphically violent comic book movie with an excellent cast that is extremely fun!