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Message: <blockquote data-quote="orbitalfreak" data-source="post: 2139364" data-attributes="member: 1669">I gave it a 5/10.I'm not really sure if I liked this movie or not; I'm coming away from the theatre with mixed feelings.  I found lots of the film very enjoyable, but other parts had me feeling very "meh" about the whole thing.  I'm not regretting having seen it, but I do wish I'd seen it at matinee prices.Stylistically, the movie was amazing.  A perfect capture of over-the-top film noir.  I've not read the graphic novels for this, but it was still obvious that the movies pulled from that a lot for visual impact.  The effects used to "comic-book-i-fy" the film were beautiful.  The cinematography, like that of Sky Captain, was superb.I'm a bit prudish when it comes to sex, nudity, and excessive violence in film.  I was a bit uncomfortable with it at first, but fell into liking it as the film progressed.  It just seemed to fit.  Except Jessica Alba staying clothed.  I could have done without that.Sometimes, though, things just didn't feel right.  The guy talking with the arrow sticking out of him was really jarring, pacing-wise.  Here we have a dark, gritty movie, suddenly interjected with slapstick humor better found in Warner Brothers cartoons.  Hilarious, but it just didn't work for me.I also didn't like the three separate storyline format of the film.  It made things hard to follow occasionally, especially dealing with character overload.  Sometimes, the over-the-top violence went too over-the-top.  I understand that that was how the film was made to be, and mostly I enjoyed it.  It just seemed to go a little too far in some places, beyond what it should have in order to feel right.  The blasting off of the arm, the stump left after cannibalization, and the weird way the cops helmet split after the axe hit, they all seemed... off... to me.Elijah Wood's character, Kevin, was very flat.  No motivation for what he was doing, no development of the character.  He was just "Bad Guy #3" in my eyes, and I really didn't care about him (even anti-caring, since he was bad).Quite a few great things about the movie, but enough of it had me thinking "They could have done that differently," and an overall feeling of "Great looking (including stylized dialogue), but not really memorable as far as story is concerned."  Again, 5/10.</blockquote>

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