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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 8420
Released: May 25, 1999 |
| Our Price: $24.99 |
| Used Price: $16.90 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
This plain-vanilla version of the old Lee Falk comic strip stars Billy Zane as a 1930s incarnation of the Phantom, an African-based, masked hero whose forefathers have all donned the costume at one time or another. Sworn to crush evil, the Phantom leaves his jungle lair to venture to New York, where he takes on a charming but criminal mastermind (Treat Williams). There's no oomph to this film at all. The very capable director Simon Wincer (Phar Lap) seems to be working with a leaden production and an inferior talent pool behind the camera. The talent in front of the camera do their best, but it isn't enough. --Tom Keogh
The Phantom Reviews:
The Phantom Review 
2008-04-07 - This product was a fun movie, take it for what it is, as an entertaining movie not meant to have the highest quality acting and screenplay. Good fun and light and entertaining.
Great action flick! 
2008-04-05 - Everything is possible for this super hero. This movie moves along at a great pace with great acting and good looking women. It's a movie you can watch over and over again. A must for the complete DVD library!
Well done. Great cast. 
2008-01-02 - Billy Zane, Kristy Swanson, and Zeta-Jones. What a nice cast assembled to make a movie of my favorite comic strip character. I can't give it five stars, maybe because no one can make the Phantom as I envisioned it back in the 60s, but there are some elements of the movie that reduce its effectiveness, but only slightly. I'm not going to criticize the movie, just tell the interested reader that you're going to get a pretty straight-up movie with a couple goofy elements and perhaps just a slightly campy atmosphere...but sit back, buckle up and enjoy the ride.
not worth the time 
2007-10-18 - Indian Jones meets 1960's batman... ie Indian Jones in tights. Worst line in the movie "There is no smoking in the Skull Cave" said by the phantoms butler whilst standing infront of a roaring fire... not to mention the various tourches around the cave being used to light the place.
An underrated Phantom
2007-08-23 - The Phantom plays it awfully close to the origianl 30's strip and, sadly, sailed right by the viewers looking for something louder and nastier than a skull ring and a dog sidekick. Having said that, I highly recommend the movie to anyone with a longtime affection for The Ghost Who Walks. It's a shame they stopped after one.
