Great film!

Rating: Null/10 (23 April 2009)

I'm a critique of depressing drama by trade... As a child I was fascinated by even the mediocre horror and Sci-fi. Science Fiction filmography has very an infrequent base of release that can be categorized in the top shelf of movie goers "award winning" regime. It's often unfair that we exclude such extraordinary film work of various types from Oscar "best film" and associated applause. Especially in more recent years, this genre of film has seen tremendous effort and excellence. Anyway... to be blunt,... this film is landmark. To consider how difficult it would be to follow such a great graphic novel is certainly mind-boggling. The DVD graphic novel rendition is very good, and even though the narration lacks differentiation between character narration or gender it is very good. Hence, a hard act to follow. The movie adaptation is eerie and you catch things verbatim from the illustrated version of caption bubbles. Even certain background items leap from cartoon to film, it's SO damned good. Unfortunately for those people hell bent on absolute rendition of graphic novel to movie adaptation they might be disappointed. There are slights to the story to make the movie adaptation more pleasing, believable, etc,... Certainly the cartoon of a grotesque alien is difficult to adapt so the film does a certain makeover to the plot and does it exceptionally well IMHO. This film will stand the test of time. In the ranks of other Sci_Fi films like Bladerunner, Forbidden Planet, The Day the Earth Stood Still, 2001 A Space Odyssey, etc,... This film distorts the time table and allows the viewer to molt with a wide range of futuristic yet retrospective mind bend. In as much as I wanted to criticize, characters in this movie like Rorschach are simply so incredible and well acted that it would leave you breathless. As the statement goes... "I'm not in here with you,... you're in here with me!"... And so the story goes. Highly recommended.