boe_dye sez: ... the key word is "loosely" based on the comic...

Rating: 9/10 (20 July 2008)

But I still got a kick out of it! Honestly, it was an absurd, over the top, unbelievable action flick, and I got a kick out of it.
So Westley didn't look like Eminem, and Fox didn't look like Haley Barry and the Villains didn't wipe the memory of the Hero's from existence, and so what if the similarities begin and end with the title, and the fact that it had something to do with assassins...
So what...
Mark Millar actually went on record to say that this film turned out to be the original idea of what he had in mind in the first place, but had forgotten about after the story was written...
Who cares? It was a pretty cool movie if you suspend all logic and disbelief and for a second consider that you can actually shoot someone in the head across town through glass, and cars, and trains and so on all while lounging on your easy chair looking at your target through a telescope.
Yes it's absurd, but it's pretty damn cool at the same time.
I will say this, that the film and the comic both had one very distinct thing in common.
The last thing said, in both film and novel, were both equally stupid.
Otherwise it was a pretty cool film.