It's not high art but it is great fun. It's a comic book fer heavens sake and Ron Pearlman makes a great, swaggaring, smart-mouthed, but still vulernable super hero.
Yes, it was derivitive in some places, but it was a visual spectacle and lot of fun.
I do see another sequel (triquel?) in the offing, though.
My one biitch is that they moved HQ from Newark, where I was born, to Trenton.