Kill, Kill, Overkill.

Rating: 3/10 (10 December 2005)

I'm a noir fan and have enjoyed films noir from all decades since the beginning of the genre. If this is a modern day film noir - which it appears to be - maybe I should be getting of the train. I don't care what comic book it was based on because I haven't read that. I rented it and tried to convince my wife that it wasn't so bad - and to convince myself - because there were new things. But to me, what ruined it, was that it breaks the rules of noir without creating any new ones that are worth elaborating on. The people are too ugly and too cartoon. Wome in cartoons are never beautiful - like Goldie, who's supposed to be a vixen or something. That's what she may be, a vixen. She's not a woman.
But my only real complaint is the dialogue and the monologue (voice over). It's way too much. Nothing is left to the imagination. It's as far from poetry as it can be. Watch Double Indemnity or The Big Sleep and see what I mean. They talk much, but the words are loaded in those movies. They hold up even if you think about them.