Another film based on a graphic novel with spectacular images, extreme violence, lop-sided political theorizing, poor line readings...what has now become typical fare. This one threw in several sex scenes to add to the spice. To my eye these come across as the wet dreams of computer hackers/nerds and their popularity is worrisome.
I suppose as long as there has been mass media...100 years or so...there's been some pandering to the lowest common denominator. During the newspaper era it was comics. Radio had crime drama. etc... But this stuff is borderline sick. If this material fulfills the wishes of millions of viewers we're further along the road to degradation than I realized.
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