Not as good as some think, not as bad as others say. Rating it among the super-hero movies of late: worse than either X-Men (a lot worse than the second), much worse than Spider-Man (possibly only because the "learning about my super-powers" section was much better in that movie), much better than Daredevil (I didn't see it, but it's gotta be better than purple leather). I can't remember the Batman movies well, but it was much worse than the first, and much, much better than the last. Of course, the last Batman was, quite possibly, the worst movie ever.

The good: Jennifer Connelly is as hot as they come. Not as hot in this one as in A Beautiful Mind, but that was one of those special movies that somehow just make the leading lady look luminous. Kinda like Zeta Jones in Zorro, or Hayek in Desperado. Eric Bana wasn't nearly as bad as most reviews claimed. Obviously Lee told him, "You're repressed. You have no feelings, except rage, and we'll do that on the 'puter. Just say your lines and cash your check." The steroidal poodle was awesome. Just perfect, that touch of the ridiculous in an otherwise convincingly scary scene. Funny that I was much more sure that our hero might actually get hurt by a bunch of dogs than by the entire might of the U.S. Army.

The bad: Jennifer Connelly is too skinny. Eat a stick of butter, sister (or, in today's low-carb world, is it eat a loaf of bread? A box of pasta? Whatever, she needs to put on some pounds). The animation was, hard to believe in this day and age, kinda fakey. Dude just didn't seem to have any real weight to him, and he was just ridiculously large. Was it really necessary that he be fourteen feet tall and weigh four or five tons? Back in the day, Lou was plenty, and I think that size would have been fine here, too.

Lots of other bad stuff. It was way, way, waaaaaay to long. Absolutely no one taking his side was pretty lame, too. Couldn't he have had some allies besides his girl? Couldn't his Dad have been convincing as a standup guy for an hour or so? Guess not.

Save this one for the DVD player, folks. I'm not ever going to see it again, even if I just happen to show up someplace where it's being watched.