Pointless Noir

Rating: 2/10 (7 November 2005)

I got bored, there is some novelty value in the heightened Noir from being mostly black and white (with no greys) and the stylised direction.
It is not a great, or even good movie... there is hype without substance.
The characters are beyond comprehension, empathy is not possible, nor is understanding the motivation for any of the characters to carry out the actions they do. There is nothing engaging here, except perhaps for the truly juvenile.
Successive scenes of extreme violence that each have no meaning eventually merge into waiting for the over stylised movie to end, which it eventually does.
The violence is meaningless in two ways, the first is that the characters are seemingly invincible and keep going forever, making the violence of each character impotent, and the second that there is never a motivation for any of it.
There is nothing in this movie to engage the viewer. It is probably a movie for people who like comics.
Having read the review here, and chanced upon the comic in a bookstore, I understand that it is a close reproduction of a comic, I am not sure why that would make it a good movie...