The
country's best mercenary, Al Simmons, gets double-crossed in what
was to be his final mission, and ends up killed by his supervisor,
Jason Wynn. The mercenary is then offered a deal by the devil by
which he may return to Earth but must kill his supervisor, and help
Hell in the war with Heaven, or some such nonsense.
Based on
the popular Todd McFarlane comic book, it captures the essence of the
comic in that it is more concerned with looks than characters, and
cool costumes than story. Neither the comic nor the film make much
sense, as it is so confusing in understanding why the devil would
hire both Wynn and Simmons and then make one kill the other, only to
have the other kill the one. There are a lot of special effects,
most of which are ugly and phony looking, and far too much overall
noise . The characters are idiotic, the plot confusing, the outfits
laughable, the acting horrible, and the directing ham-handed. It's
nothing but an ugly, noisy, boring and disgusting waste of money only
existing to be eaten up by fanboys of the ridiculously overwrought
and underplotted comic of the same name.
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