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Overview

Genre :

Adventure, Fantasy, Action

Release Date :

March 06, 2009

MPAA Rating :

Director :

Zack Snyder

Starring :

Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Carla Gugino, Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Matt Frewer, Patrick Wilson, Stephen McHattie, Laura Mennell

REVIEWS RATE: Critics Readers [Rate It]

“..too busy, too narratively dense, and too awkwardly structured..”

by James Berardinelli [Reelviews]

“..smart, stylish, decent..”

by Ian Nathan [Empire Magazine]

“..roughly half a good movie..”

by Joe Neumaier [NY Daily News]

“..more entertaining than Catwoman..”

by Claudia Puig [USA Today]

“..gargantuan, pretentious and slavishly faithful..”

by Duane Dudek [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]

“..commercially feasible and artistically depressing..”

by Ty Burr [Boston Globe]

Review rate : B+

“..an unusually satisfying journey into an eerie parallel world..”

by William Arnold [Seattle Post Intelligencer]

Reviewed by Kyle Smith [New York Post]

Reviewed by Steven Rea [Philadelphia Inquirer]

Reviewed by Jeff Vice [Deseret News]

Reviewed by Liam Lacey [Globe and Mail]

Reviewed by Connie Ogle [Miami Herald]

Reviewed by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone]

Reviewed by Michael Sragow [Baltimore Sun]

Reviewed by Colin Covert [Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune]

Reviewed by A.O. Scott [NY Times]

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