I had no reason to expect to like this movie – the very look of its hero sets up a wall for me, like Spawn, it just looks ridiculous. But I will give it points for its slickness, and it does at least try to have some kind of emotional core (if I had to name a ‘favourite moment’ it would be when Ron Perlman gestures towards his face in the company of Selma Blair, says something like, “I wish I could get past this,” it’s a neat moment).

It’s based on a comic book so I guess there’s a whole bunch of background information that the movie skips on. I personally couldn’t fathom the reason for the Nazi connection and the whole space thing.

Basically, this is actually an okay movie. But the look is just way too extreme for me.

The DVD is pretty stunning – you get two commentaries, one from the crew, one from the cast, a storyboard track that hooks up corresponding storyboards as you play the movie (which you can couple with a commentary to save yourself some time), and a branching “set visits” set of clips that also plays alongside the movie like The Matrix’s “white rabbit” feature (I’m assuming that this, too, can be played along with a commentary – I haven’t got that far yet). And I guess that’s just disc one (it’s a rental I have).

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