A Bad Film

Rating: 6/10 (30 August 2005)

This film is really depressing - How can you take so many good actors and so much time spent editing to such a unique style yet generate something that is boring. I'm going to write off the apparently bad acting as an attempt at being consistent with the style of the novels. This film consists of a series of short stories that vaguely interlink, some better than others. The story featuring bruce willis is unfortunately boring and really slams him as an actor. The story to follow that is quite exciting and the next one isn't too bad although i zoned out during the middle. Then it returns to the willis boredom-fest - at this point i walked out on the movie (and I usually really feel a need to finish a movie i go to see). This sort of anime-style cartoony film noir stuff is tough going and the movie is pretty gory, which is a good thing and saves the movie for short periods, an obvious influence of Tarantino. The style is an obvious copy of shindlers list and an attempt to put the batman & general marvel style comics to the screen. Overall - an incredibly over-rated movie thats worth a watch if you're doing so for free but the film wont be remembered in a years time.