Not At All Bad

Rating: 7/10 (19 August 2005)

I have never read Frank Miller's comics, so I came into this with an open mind .. a clean slate. The look and feel of the film was excellent, and the stories were more than gritty.
That being said, there was one thing I found rather annoying.
Major (if trivial) Spoiler: The film had a lot of voice-over narration, and the narrators, in two cases, died on screen. Admittedly, there's nothing wrong in doing this in a literary device that has been used for ages in books and short stories, but it seemed to me a bit out of place in the film context.
Probably the highpoint of the stories was the Marv story, with a vengeance tale that just kept going. It's something of a pity that Marv's ultimate vengeance was displayed indirectly.
This is not a film for everyone. But it's rather good for some.