Snyder has yet to disappoint us

Rating: 9/10 (11 April 2009)

With tickets sold out the week before it opened, Zack Snyder's visually stunning masterpiece has finally hit the big screen. This movie fought cruel lawsuits (by the Fox A-Holes), release date changes but it still managed to make it's way out of the cutting room floor. It has also already sold more tickets than 300 (which Snyder also directed.) This is based on the comic book created a few years back, which some of you might not have heard of. Now, I'm here with a full page review of it. This takes place in 1985, and the government has no other ideas than to hire a secret organization of superheroes to keep the world under peace. When one of the members is murdered, the others are on a race to find out why, and save themselves before they are all killed. This is a complex, but visually stunning and original superhero tale. I really liked how Snyder designed his own vision of what the 70's looked like, and how he makes all the CGI look real like. You've got to hand it to him, after the hugely successful 300; this will go down as one of his best works as well. However, even if this is a comic book masterpiece it is absolutely not a movie for kids or even the faint of heart. All the themes in this movie are mature, and it's meant for an adult audience. Snyder mentioned in a column for Entertainment weekly "I wanted to make sure everyone understood: This is not a kid movie. Violence has consequences," and true to his words, there's a large amount of earth shattering and realistic violence in this movie. You can count on seeing a man's arm being ripped off, a man's face being burned by hot oil, and plenty more. Like the comic book, the movie has a lot of mature materiel such as government, vigilante, corruption, poverty, and plenty of other themes you wouldn't expect a 13 year to understand. Not to mention there's a lot of mature content and a rape scene where I closed my eyes on. Actor Jeffery Dean Morgan (Grey's Anatomy) also mentioned that some of the scenes in this movie disturbed him, especially the original ending for this. The original ending was edited due to its graphic nature and how disturbing it was to some audience members. I mentioned at my school the other day if I see any kid under my age going or sneaking in to see this, I am going to kindly go out, tell the ticket manager, and pay for their way into another movie. In fact the UK has this rated at M18, which means no one under that age can get in even with a parent. I was only able to get in because I had my ID on me which clearly stated that I'm 18 (which I am.) I went to see this because I read the comic book (even if I didn't understand some of it), I both stunned visually, and plot wise by it. As for the movie, it followed the comic book, and it does a wonderful job of doing so. However the comic also contained some of the content mentioned here so I wasn't surprised by all the violence in the movie, but found it shocking. This is a visually brilliant and impressive movie, but it's not for kids. Instead rent them Iron Man which is a movie for them. work, us fans of the comic book appreciate what you're doing and, for anyone looking for a film that's 100% faithful to the graphic novel or is looking into being blown away visually, this one's for you.