What a waste of money.

Rating: 5/10 (7 March 2009)

First, I'm giving this 5 stars purely on the great special effects, but then what film doesn't have those these days?
The acting was poor, there was virtually zero character development, and I spent about 70% of the time being bored. The plot has potential, but it skipped between flashbacks and what might've been flashforwards (who knows o_O?), and the history of the storyline was extremely boring.
I had hoped that the gruff 'I need a throat sweet' voice over was going to stay with Bale in Batman, but no. The narrator of this movie had the same 'give me a soother' voice and that was quite annoying. The female lead was also incredibly irritating, and clearly only got the part because of the amount of nudity required for her role. I cannot see many respected, decent actresses being okay with such a lousy script and the nudity.
The story itself didn't pick up any sort of pace at all until at least half way through (that's an hour and a half, nearly :P ). It contained too much blood and gore for my liking. That is a personal preference so does not reflect much on how decent the film is as a whole, but if you don't want to see guts hanging from the ceiling, people having their hands cut off, a man getting a meat cleaver to his head multiple times, two dead dogs, bones being broken (and subsequently bursting through the skin) and people exploding from the inside out... then really don't go see this.
Of course the fanboys of the comics (Oops, sorry, I meant Graphic Novel....) will rate this film highly just because they're fanboys. I got taken along with my best friend and her comic book mad fiancée and even he after weeks of "omg watchmen!!!" was unimpressed, as was another comic book loving friend of mine. I wish I hadn't shelled out to see it, I feel it was a total waste of my time and money. I am now just looking forward to seeing the Transformers and Ironman sequels, now there are two great films.