Don't be fooled by hype and surface.

Rating: 6/10 (16 April 2005)

A great style study, wonderful techniques, serious effort by many artists (even by many stylistically challenged actors) but ultimately empty film. See it, be very entertained (or offended), and leave forgetting it. Unfortunately so much of our cultural life is empty or lacking that many will be fooled merely by 'hipness' and style. It may be instructive to compare this to the excellent Spiderman 2, the failed Daredevil, the first Batman, etc...
I don't mind studies in style and often very much enjoy them as I did this film. But especially in our cultural desert and already demeaning society and Bush-league cruel world, I mind that it is given so much weight and meaning when it has none or merely has such celebration of cynical, superficial, negative, sometimes cruel perspectives.