It's a rich, impressive comic-book fantasy.

What makes this film such a success is its seriousness on the subject of proper and improper responses to oppression, its unique and memorable characters, its cleverness and visual imagination, and its refusal to degenerate into a bloodbath.

Superior to any Batman except the 1989 movie.

Finally, a movie based on a comic book that actually succeeds.

I don't say this often, but bring on the sequel.

Call it a gift from cinema heaven.

Not as disturbingly dark as Batman, but yet it still has the hard gritty edge that keeps the audience riveted to the screen.

All these characters with their odd powers are inherently absurd and they throw a barrel of wrenches into the machinery of a coherent narrative.

Singer was wise enough to keep the fight scenes silent instead of featuring the usual inane banter of most comic-book movies.

Entertaining and reasonably intelligent.