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Don't bother!

Jonathan Ross has just ripped it apart!!!

Originally Posted by Jonathan Ross

Misconceived from opening title to end credits. Nothing with this film works. Hugo Weaving is given the impossible task in playing a hero who spends the whole time behind a full face mask, and is therefore incapable of visual expression. It is a notion which is perfectly acceptable in a comic book, but deadly on film.

As the heroin Natalie Portman just isn't up to the task, failing in even the most basic requirements of the role, such as providing a consistent and credible accent.

Around her a cast of notable and familiar talent such as John Hurt, and Steven Rea stand little chance, amid the wreckage of the Wachowski siblings dismal script, and it's particularly poor dialogue.

And, unlike so many fantasy adventure films, the visuals don't offer any compensation for the shortcomings of the screenplay.

Despite postponing the release date from last November to allow more time for post production work, the film looks cheap, and lacks any sense of time or place.

Throw in Matrix veteran James McTeigue's flat direction, and you have a woeful, depressing failure.

If it had been V for Vasectomy, I could scarcely have found it a less enjoyable experience.

So please don't let your curiosity get the better of you when it arrives down your way on Friday.

I don't think he lived it very much!