Childish comic book... Childish movie

Rating: 4/10 (11 April 2005)

Visually fantastic? You betcha, and unfortunately, that's about it. The characters are all virtually interchangeable; all the men are clichéd sociopaths whose only real function is protecting women, who are by the way, all portrayed as half-naked sluts. Make no mistake, this stuff comes straight from the fevered masturbatory fantasies of your average 14 year old.
This isn't necessarily even the fault of the film makers, it comes about naturally from following so closely to the comics. Unfortunately, slavish devotion to an already adolescent comic book does not equal quality. All the dialog is kept intact, and while it may read alright coming off the page, when you have real people saying these lines out loud it becomes downright silly.