Eagerly awaited, does it deliver on its promise? Well, I guess it depends on what you believed that promise was.It follows the source material faithfully - apart from when it doesn't. And to this extent provides a useful schooling in the difference between plot and story (and between comics and cinema and on this it truly transpires Alan Moore knows the score) - "Where we have gone you know you never can go".
On other occasions tweaks have been made, often to no great effect, though in others simply to move the pace along (and this for a film clocking in at 2 hours 40 odd). And yet, on other occasions too much effort was made to keep characters, simply to show that they had not been forgotten, a knowing nod to the source.
While some of the changes annoyed - though not generally the ending which was more cinematic than the comic and as such given the medium - a good thing. A convincing space squid would have been difficult - even for a film with a floating blue guy.
Returning to pace, I doubt if anyone not familiar with the source would (could?) appreciate all the information being presented. For this one familiar with the source, I found a number of things annoying, including the forced, overwrought, kinematic nature of all the fight scenes. In this regard it would likely have worked better as a mini-series, as suggested by Terry Gilliam.
Still this is the film we got, not the film it could have been. It could have been much worse. So good, but not great. 7/10 (with the nagging feeling that I may still be being generous).
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As a review, does it delver on its promise? Well, I guess it depends on what you believed that promise was.
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You've read the comics more recently than I have (by a good few years) so I guess the tweaks were less obvious to me and hence less annoying.
I also quite liked the fight scenes. I also approved of the rewritten ending for much the same reasons that you did.
I did have one or two niggles about the movie but if I tell you what they are now we'll have nothing to talk about in the pub, will we?
My overall verdict? Different reasoning, same end result 7/10. (Though I have no doubts.)
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