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The Spirit (2008)
description written by member Zara:
After rookie Central City cop Denny Colt (Gabriel Macht) is murdered, he's mysteriously reborn as masked superhero the Spirit. Setting out to rid the streets of crime, he finds his archnemesis in the Octopus (Samuel L. Jackson), whose quest for immortality imperils the entire city. Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes and Paz Vega co-star in this adaptation of Will Eisner's classic comic by writer-director Frank Miller (Sin City, 300).
| Release Date: | December 25th, 2008 |
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The Spirit Movie Review by Zara  (12/27/2008) |
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I'll agree with Jarrod on the rating. I can't give this movie bonus points for its visuals because all of them are ones we've seen before and done better. Usually as time progresses, images and their techniques get BETTER and not stay the same. So throw the images or the wannabe film noir stuff to the side.
Best to throw...
(complete The Spirit review by Zara)
| The Spirit Movie Review by Chris (5/4/2009) |
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'The Spirit' is a very laughable superhero movie, it's barely taken serious and this isnt the fault of Will Eisner, who wrote the original comic, but it's the fault of first time director Frank Miller. Miller has had a few comics translated to screen, Robert Rodriquez's Sin City and Zack Snyder's 300 are two of them, but I...
(complete The Spirit review by Chris)
| The Spirit Movie Review by Jarrod (12/26/2008) |
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'The Spirit' is an absolutely soulless superhero movie; a lavish bore that favors style over substance. In fact, it has no substance of any kind, and contains no emotion, no humanity, no excitement. I would say the problem lies with Frank Miller's shortcomings as a director. As gifted an artist as he may be, he is...
(complete The Spirit review by Jarrod)
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