First off, I liked this movie, although I agree with everything the other viewer said. The movie starts off fantastically well. Andy Lau (Big) and Cecilia Cheung (Lee Fung Yee) have great chemistry, and the special effects are very well done. It's a lot of fun all around. Then, in the last Act, everything comes to a head as Lee goes looking for Sun Ko, who murdered Big's friend Jade, is killed by him, on that same mountain where he killed Jade.
Big had been a monk and left the Temple (at the foot of the mountain) after Jade was killed when, in a frustrated rage, he (Big) had killed a sparrow and been endowed with an ability to see Karma. Now, he was back on the mountain seeking revenge. He ends up chasing Sun Ko back to a sacred cave with obscure graffitti on the walls and buddhist statuary around its external perimeter. Here he finds that he has been chasing his own karmic self and, if he didn't come to grips with it, he was doomed to creating a cycle of death and revenge (which was the motivation behind the first murder which brought Big and Lee together).
If looked on in that light, the ending becomes sadly poetic as Big accepts the deaths of Jade and Lee as part of their karma, dons the old robes he had discarded on the mountain five years previously and continues his search. Now, however, when he and Sun Ko meet (after another 5 years), instead of revenge, there is compassion and the karmic imbalance is resolved.
Like I said, I liked this movie. Although, like the other reviewer, I too would have wished for a sweeter ending for Lee and Big.

This is another one of those stories with a great idea and excellant artwork to back it up. The only fault I would have with it is that the ideological motivations for the characters' actions are never developed to a point where they were meaningful to me. I'm used to Gaimen, Ennis, Ellis and Carey and, when you're talking about "world in crisis" stories, I expect some meaningful insights into a character's emotional development. That wasn't the case here. Mostly, I think, because of the brevity of the book. That said, however, this was a good read.

This is a book with promise. The plot is there, the artwork is there. But....it doesn't really develop the storyline well enough for me to feel what the characters are supposed to be experiencing. It's a good book for what it does; but I ended up feeling like the whole thing had been rushed through and that some scenes were underdeveloped. For instance, the relationship betweem the brother and his wife, and the protagonist, as well as the climax, all seemed to just be thrown at me and I was left feeling as though a great premise had just failed to be realized.

I was looking forward to an active, meaningful discourse on the war between Heaven and Hell for control of existence. I mean, that is what it's all about, isn't it? Instead, I found myself reading a rather stilted, artistically static, lackadasical story which didn't do much to enlighten, or entertain. The annotataions at the end of the book are interesting; but, since they didn't do anything for the story as I read it, weren't that meaningful to me. To be honest, I wasn't impressed. I guess I'm a Tolkien fan and want orcs, goblins, and demons spewing blood. This book just didn't do it for me.

I was into the story, loved the art, the dialogue, and the angst, and.....the thrust of the conflict between the Children of Maya and The Bat peters out into inanity. I liked everything but that. The final two pages, with Batman still an indominatble spirit, flawed but resolute, I liked. In fact, every since Frank Miller's, "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns", I've been in love with the character. He's a superhero without superhero powers and his internal dialogues has been as intruiging as any of the external problems he's faced. In "Absolution" we have a story that gives full power to the internal angst that Batman faces in his lifelong struggle against the predators among us. Unfortunately, the climax depends on an apparent suicidal destructive act by the villian which resolves nothing except a need for plot development. It's not bad, it could have been so-so much better.

I bought this program to transcribe text from a word processor to my computer and I've been delighted with the results. The only reason I don't give it five stars is that the system requirements they give are sorely understated. The computer I was using origninally had 256M RAM and was running at 533MHz, and I had continual problems with voice recognition. Now, I have 512M RAM and am running above 1GHz, and the difference in ease of use is like magic. All of these programs (from the reviews I've read) understate system requirements this way. Sure, you can (probably) get the program to run with their minimum; but to perform the way you'ld expect...not gon'na happen. That said, this is a great buy for the money and I recommend it wholeheartedly.

I got this book with the expectation of being whelmed. That didn't happen. The premise is great, the artwork interesting...but, overall, I was left feeling pretty ho-hum about the whole thing. The story is rushed, in an attempt to create suspense (at least I hope that's the reason); but there isn't any depth to it and, although I don't mind that two of the characters have no apparent meaning in the story development (a lot of time/space is wasted to get on of them in postition to provide the vampires with an alibi), I do mind what happens in the climax when the sherrif finds himself able to destroy the vampires simply because he 'finds his rhythm'. It's difficult to recommend this book. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't that notable either.

Like all great stories, this novel has depth, and, like all great comic novels, the artwork enhances the story line and expands it's message. This is a must buy for any lover, collecter, of the genre and I can't praise it enough.

Batman has been my favorite superhero since "The Dark Knight Returns" came out a decade ago, and this story only carries on the fantastic story telling tradition that began with that story. "Knightfall" begins a story line that has richness, complexity, and depth, and I can't rate it high enough for those of you who are fans.

This is typical jodorosky. I've read a number of his works and they're all the same: excellant imaging centered around violence, and a story line which only serves to support that violence. If you're into it, fine; but I've read this book and the next ("blood and steel") and I don't see myself getting the third.
And, I agree totally with the other reviewer. The two robots (one telling the story to the other) are tedious in the extreme.
Buy it for the art; but don't expect much else.