Script that an eighth grader might write

Rating: 3/10 (11 April 2005)

I'll give the movie some credit for the fact that a great many films have tried to employ cinematography that would give the feel of a comic book. This movie did a better job than any of the previous attempts (Dick Tracy, Sky Captain, etc). For the most part, if you saw the trailer, you saw all the value this movie had, and it isn't so visually stunning as to keep your attention by itself.
But the plot completely SUCKED!!! I can't believe the willingness people have to just ignore the quality of the plot and the characters entirely. It wasn't just that it was gratuitous--it's that it was nothing *but* gratuitous. T&A were prominent, and so if you're really hard up for some soft-core footage digitally altered to look like a comic, they got you covered. Swell. And there were plenty of powerful men killing without regard for either the lives of their enemies or their own lives, and a great many people fight even unto their own demise. Wow. So basically, what you have is a plot that sings to sexually frustrated adolescents struggling with the hormonal rages of puberty. For the rest of you, so long as you both a) don't huff glue, or b) actually *like* films enough to realize how trite the film is, you probably ought to just skip this film.
Don't believe the hype.