Rent it

Rating: 6/10 (26 July 2013)

I saw this on a whim and wasn't really looking forward to it, if anything I thought it be terrible, that being said thought it was much better than the Origins movie that came out a while back. The opening doesn't even feel like a big budget blockbuster flick, it's slow paced, well shot; it's a very different feel from the usual approach with these movies.
Now I don't mean to say that it's a boring, drawn out, art house flick, but there is a level of care put to detail in this movie that goes over looked in most superhero summer movies at the expense of fast paced action and high stakes.
Then right around the last act of the movie it takes a sharp left turn to the outlandlishly absurd. It really feels like two different movies, and I might even entertain the idea that the studio execs were responsible for that, seems like they got their dirty hands on it from that point on. The Silver Samurai scene is every bit as ridiculous as you'd expect it be, and the finale is totally anticlimactic.
I wouldn't pay top dollar for it but I'd definitely watch it on a slow evening when the only thing on TV is a Lifetime movie. I wonder what Darren Aronofsky would've done with it had he not left it to work on Noah.