Overrated

Rating: 1/10 (13 February 2007)

I can appreciate some of the visual craft in the film, but the violence is so pervasive that either you should be disgusted by the film and turn it off (or fast-forward, as I did, hoping that it would get better) or you will become numbed to the violence (which presents a moral problem of an entirely different stripe). If someone wants to complain about violence in comic book creations, this would be a prime example.
Manipulation of black-and-white scenes with intense color highlights can only take a viewer so far. This might have been a great film, but the artistry of it sometimes feels self-indulgent. Characterization may appear to be good, but fundamentally the movie lacks any depth.
Go watch the Spider-man films or _Batman Begins_ instead.