it's better to have read the comics in advance

Rating: 7/10 (7 December 2001)

Mostly, I agree with the others: it's not a bad movie, but it's also not a great one. At least for people like me who had not known about the comics before, because I felt as if I didn't know something throughout the film. The characters were introduced rather fast, and some strands definitely have the purpose of justifying a sequel. Thus, the movie itself seems somehow incomplete to me. It's probably more fun watching it when you know the background stories of the plot.