It's a little too brutal at some points, however most violence does surve a purpose. DC Comics Watchmen meets Tarantino.

**Brilliant adaptation of the source work.**

OK but not great movie. Sometimes it is rather hard to follow the different stories.

I don't know why people regard this film in such high esteem. Sure, the visual effects are nice and something else. Above that, storywise, I find this movie highly eratic, incoherent, unnecessarily violent... It is one thing to tackle taboo topics like cannibalism and prostitution but a whole nother story to celebrate it. Among the few things I liked about this movie: Josh Hartnett as a professional hitman opening the movie in order to explain the ending (one instance they spared us all the bloodshed, I wonder how that happend). Equally how the storyarcs about Goldy and Nancy close with the exact same text spoken as voice over as they began. Sure, there are elements that those different story arcs partially share, old town and the rock farm, the powerhungry rockfamily in general, but it would be extremely exagerated to say that this would tie the story arcs together, there is no real connection. It's more like someone threw paint at a canvas and accidentally two drops hit the same spot. all this 50s detective movie charm cannot help me over this erratic storytelling.