Puts the "GRAPHIC" into "Graphic Novel"

Rating: 6/10 (10 April 2005)

I have to say that like others, this is probably one of the best adaptations to screen ever. You can even find frame-to-comic comparisons that match up completely. However, in comics they may show one quick frame of blood and gore to illustrate what is happening. When translated to screen, these frames last much longer. Instead of a quick flash of this, we get 30 minutes of this bleeding, 45 minutes of that bleeding. I fear the marvel of film-making this movie is will be lost on a large audience due to the amount of blood and gore. This is probably the only movie where they have to warn you about castrations in the plural sense. Marve's part seemed to drone on a bit, especially since the violence just seemed to get repetitive.
Much like "Kill Bill Volume 1" the violence level will ward some people away from a good movie, but I think Kill Bill did a better job of making the movie violent without putting so much in you get bored.