As bad as it gets

Rating: Null/10 (1 December 2000)

Oh my God, what a terrible movie. I couldn't sit through it to the end, so I missed the 'twist ending' anyway. About a dozen other people also walked out on it during the showing that I was at. I must be one of the 'mediocre people' that just doesn't get it, and neither did the other members of the 'peanut gallery' I was with, to quote one of your other reviewers. And me with two bachelors degrees - imagine that! Truly, do not waste your money on this schlock, it is NOT moody, beautiful, finely drawn or deep. It is one person's attempt at making a film about good versus evil and linking it to a theme of comic books. It's shot in a horrible grey tone throughout, to symbolize his grey life, I suppose, although Willis's one-note acting could substitute for the mediocrity there. The camera-angles all over the place get very old very quick, this is stuff students at film school come up with. Samuel L. Jackson is the only reason to see it, he's wonderful in every shot, but even he can't rescue this abortion of a film.