by D. Jacob Ryals
What if Rorshach had a retarded little brother.
This movie is great. If you took the Tick, put him in Gotham City, and took away all his powers, it would be this movie. It is a mixture of Don Coyote (with a crack smoking prostitue for Sancho Panza) and the Dark Knight. The setting and surroundings are dark, grim, and realistic and you put this delusional character in the middle of it. Woody Harrleson's performance is the main peice, I actually welled up a couple of times. Woody conveys the innocence of this character so well, that you start connecting with him with your inner child. Almost the same way we did with Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump or Sean Penn in I Am Sam. I read some reviews on this movie and the consensus was "you are going to like this movie or you aren't". I did. I love comix, but its not the superheroes that do it for me, its the vigilante that I like the most. This movie went completely under my radar. I saw it in the iTunes new releases, checked out some reviews and bought it. Loved it. Throughout the whole movie there are real consequences for what Arthur (Woody) does. Some of those consequences are tragic, but its the hope and inspiration to be better that is the most touching part of this movie.
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