Fantastical for no reason

This weekend I got a British movie I've been wanting to watch called "Franklyn". It stars Ryan Phillippe and Eva Green(Bond girl from Casino Royale). I had seen the poster and trailer for it and the main thing that I knew was that it had something to do with a masked vigilante. That will pull me in every time, plus the mask looks a lot like Rorschach's from Watchmen so that's a plus too. But when I started watching it, it turns out that the plot focuses on four seemingly unconnected stories that come together by the end of the movie. The section with the masked vigilante takes place in Meanwhile City which is actually just an extremely Gothic and visually stunning version of London. With how the movie kept flipping back and forth between the real life London and then this heightened version called Meanwhile City it was really a lot to take in. It seemed like what would happen if "The Golden Compass", "Crash", and "The Matrix" had a little British baby.

What bothered me was that all of the stories really seemed forced together by the end in a way that really made no sense to me. It was as if the filmmakers knew that adding this character who would make audiences think that the film was a comic book movie would immediately make it more watchable. The movie probably could have been a really solid character drama about relationships had they not decided to go that route, but instead, for me, it ended up being really jumbled and hard to follow just for the sake of adding a few CG sequences into a movie.