Propaganda

Rating: 7/10 (13 October 2008)

This film was a blatant piece of propaganda. If you can ignore that, it's quite entertaining. I found the propaganda in it an annoying intrusion on the escapism I was enjoying with it. In the original comic books there was little separating the good guys from the bad guys. Their roles were confused. In this film the bad guys were universally categorised as "terrorists". In addition, the film pointed out that it was justifiable to wiretap the entire population to catch these "terrorists", and that the orchestrators of these violations of civil rights are dark unwanted heroes who sacrifice themselves for the safety the populace. The person or persons wanting to send this message does not understand his or her's own confusion, and it is insulting to the intelligent viewer.
Otherwise, a good bit of violent fun with lovely special effects. Shame about the propaganda.