
When a grunt fires a rocket at you, the actual frame of the scene you're in jangles all over your monitor. When you fire a dart into someone’s neck you get three comic book frames of the poor fella getting pierced at the top of your screen along with a dramatic written scream of "Arghhhhhh!" When you shoot someone off a cliff they tumble to the firmament with a streaming exclamation of "Nooooooo!" behind them. The cel-shading looks fantastic and there are pointers everywhere to remind you that you're in a comic-book a lot like Ang Lee's ho-hum Hulk blockbuster. Still, worse things happen at sea, eh?Īs you can see. Worst of all, he's suffering from a rare skin condition that makes him look like he’s fresh from the pages of a slinky, ultra-violent Belgian comic book. It's certainly unlucky for Steve Rowland, because he's been washed up on a beach with a distinct lack of memory, a plethora of bodies piling up around him and people wearing spectacles pointing at him and claiming that he’s assassinated the President. Unlucky for some, but still a regular fixture at bingo.
