I have two issues with this release:1. Although I've never seen the series, the movie appears to have attempted to take the whole series and mash it into a feature-length film. The result is that random villains appear out of nowhere and the movie merely skips from one gory fight scene to the next, without attempting to give us even an inkling of character development or emotional depth.2. This movie is violent as all get out, and that's fine, so were flicks like Vampire Hunter D: Blood Lust and Sin City, and they were still able to tell a compelling, engaging and original story. I instead take more umbrage with the twisted sexual relations in the movie and the wanton and limb-lopping slaughter of characters we never got to know to begin with.All told, this flick left me shaking my head. Unless you go in for the ultraviolent, don't believe the hype.