A Preachy Adaptation

Rating: 2/10 (20 March 2006)

This movie is doomed by the quality of its source material. The movie and plot are utterly undermined by the Wachowski brother's preachy style of storytelling. The graphic novel is a flawed but brilliant work, losing some steam and focus in the middle, but combining a revenge story with larger themes about how governments go wrong, and why people let them do it.
But the movie inexplicably adds a subplot about a killer virus, takes away the motivation and screen time of all the "villians," removes a great deal of the action from the book, makes the motivation of the characters inconsistent, and the internal logic of the film shaky. No wonder Moore wants nothing to do with films of his work.