Awful

Rating: 4/10 (18 June 2005)

If you boys really like violence and base your max ratings on that (and the other fun stuff like half nude girls whoohoo! :( ) you're really sad. This movie only derives it's coolness from that and the way it was shot, but offers nothing else that a good movie is made of, like atmosphere, good characters that you can relate to and a good story that drags you into it and keeps you interested. If you like some gory stuff -and i like it too if brought well- you'd better go see "Saw" cause it's much more cleverly made and it has a great story with twists that are meaningful.
Unfortunately i'll have to write a longer review for this movie which is kinda impossible, cause there's nothing more to add. It's really sorry to see Bruce Willis took this role. He must have been a huge comic fan. The character he's playing is a sorry excuse for a brave cop that amazingly stays alive like so many others in this movie after having been shot and mutilated over and over again. Then there's also the stereotypical view towards women and the catholic church and a couple of Nazi symbols that make no sense but were probably based on the comic as well. If there's a comic i'd like to see a movie of it would be one like XIII or Thorgal or any other good (european) comic with a good background story and solid characters. Till then i've had enough of this crap. I also wonder if it's getting normal to split movies in half, just like they did with Kill Bill, cause it makes me even feel more like having wasted some of my precious money..