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80
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Wall Street Journal
Succeeds the same way the original comic books did: by making the conflicts and dilemmas basic enough for a five-year-old, while giving the heroes and villains glamorous outfits and layers of complexity, to thicken the broth.
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50
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
It depicts the world of a century ago in a way that comments on the anxieties facing the world today, and it does so, at least for a while, with cleverness and a sense of fun.
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42
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
The movie is based on a 1999 series of comic books by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, but the original tone of deadpan historical audacity has been replaced by a kind of wax-museum literalness.
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40
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The New York Times A.O. Scott
Has the sweat stains of wasted energy; it's dreary, yet frantic.
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40
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Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis
These guys have dumbed down a comic book.
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38
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USA Today Mike Clark
The murkiest-looking movie since Ben Affleck's "Daredevil" and about as lacking in charm.
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30
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Washington Post Desson Thomson
It just doesn't work...This isn't a blend of modern and classic so much as a collision.
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25
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Just when it seems about to become a real corker of an adventure movie, plunges into incomprehensible action, idiotic dialogue, inexplicable motivations, causes without effects, effects without causes, and general lunacy. What a mess.
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25
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Except for Connery, who is every inch the lion in winter, nothing here feels authentic.
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10
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Washington Post Stephen Hunter
It's not brazenly bad or heroically bad or stridently bad. It's bad in all the old, dull ways of being bad: poor performances, absurd story, dreary special effects, witless dialogue and the excessive length of someone taking himself far too seriously.
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