Going into the movie my husband and I figured I would have my eyes closed and he would love it. But the opposite happened! I thought it was an excellent philosophical examination of the problem of controlling evil - a transparent overlay on our War on Terror." He thought the characters and visuals were flat. The "bad guys" really were a cancer on society but were still human. The "good guys" become less good in their determination to get rid of the bad guys. The good guys wanted to think of themselves as morally and scientfically superior super-heroes but ended up compromising their own values, ending in shame and suicide. We talked about "how to overcome evil" all the way home.