I just.... don't get it

Rating: 1/10 (18 January 2018)

I am utterly baffled by the good response that this movie has been getting. I've never read a comic book in my life, so I can't judge the "accuracy" of this movie's adaptation, but if this is what the comic book is like, then I don't want to read it.
This movie has no substance behind it. The characters are either sex objects, action heroes, or both. There are no stakes and I had zero investment into the characters or the story. A character can get beat up, shot several times, run over by a truck, and drowned and still end up fine if they are a main character. The story is not very interesting at all, and it goes in so many random directions that I have trouble remembering what happened and why, although I have a feeling that all this was done on purpose, so as to not get in the way of the stylized action. Speaking of which...
The black and white with small sprinkles of color gets old fast and it reminds me why almost all movies are in color. There is nothing visually interesting done with the small amount of color that is in the movie. The action is subpar at best, and a lot of it is just straight up bad. The voiceover is seriously annoying as well. I understand that noir films are supposed to have voice over and it's an artistic choice, but it serves no real purpose in this movie. Sure, sometimes it opens a window into the protagonist's mind, but most of the time it's just describing what we already know.
I just can't understand the praise this movie is getting.