Like a jigsaw puzzle with half the pieces missing.

Rating: 6/10 (15 March 2009)

I think Zack Synder's legacy from this film will be to show, once and for all, why you *can't* make a movie exactly like the book.
Don't get me wrong, I think this was a very valiant effort. I would say that at least 80% of the scenes were an exact match to scenes from the graphic novel, and at least that much of the dialog was word for word lifted from the novel.
The problem was, there wasn't enough of them. Scenes or words.
As someone who read the graphic novel many years ago, and re-read it again recently, I knew what was happening in each scene, but I had to keep putting myself in the position of someone who *hadn't* read the novel. The question I kept asking myself was "Would someone who hadn't read the novel understand this scene, or understand it's significance?" and the answering I kept getting was "no".
It really did feel like I was looking at an extremely well made and detailed jigsaw puzzle, of which half the pieces had been stolen. The general picture was more or less visible, but too many of the details were missing.
One can only hope the DVD version is much longer.