So bad, it was disowned by Alan Moore

Rating: 3/10 (31 March 2006)

There is a good movie in there somewhere, but it is buried in a pile of Wachowski saccharine and phoniness. The pace is wrong, the dialogues are bad, and the movie is 1 hour too long. Alan Moore's comic, on which the movie is based, was a 1980s story inspired by Thatcher's Britain. The Wachowski brothers replace the original anarchist ethos with Twin Tower conspiracies theories and references to the Kuran in an attempts to make it relevant to the 21st century, but ultimately they fail. Despite the fact they did their homework about London and casted some British actors, the movie still felt phony. Even the special effects are nothing to blow your mind. Explosions look like firework displays, and zoomed in falling raindrops have been done in many shampoo adverts before. The only eye candy I enjoyed was some flying knives at the very end. Once again, the Wachowski brothers proved they can only do crap movies. Stay well away from it.