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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Lions Gate
Salesrank: 8526
Released: April 14, 2009 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Genre: Action/Adventure
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 14-APR-2009
Media Type: DVD
Description of The Spirit:
Above shadowy, crime-infested streets a masked avenger watches. Denny Colt (Gabriel Macht) was one of Central City’s finest cops until a gangster’s bullet ended his life. Now Fate has brought him back from the beyond as The Spirit, a street-hardened hero who faces off against seductive foes like the voluptuous Sand Saref (Eva Mendes) and the alluring Silken Floss (Scarlett Johansson). Then, of course, there’s his evil archenemy, The Octopus (Samuel L. Jackson), with a mission to wipe out Spirit’s beloved city as he pursues his own version of immortality in this graphic action-thriller.
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The Spirit Reviews:
The Spirit 
2009-12-18 - The Spirit, in its dark artiness, works well. This film has sleek angularity, but it's the film's clichés that seem to have lived forever.
Frank Miller kills The Spirit. 
2009-12-05 - It's really hard to believe that I waited twenty-five years on a long-rumored film of Will Eisner' definitive "Comics Noir" "The Spirit", only to get this...thing. When I first heard that Frank Miller was going to direct an adaptation of Eisner, I was split. On the one hand, it made sense: Miller's work has always been heavily influenced by "The Spirit", especially his "Daredevil", which drew much of it's visual style directly from Eisner's strip. On the other hand, Eisner's work has a kind of humor, sentiment, and, at times even whimsy that Miller's work has never shown at all. So I wasn't overly surprised when we got a movie that's nearly all Miller rather than Eisner. That might have (almost) worked on its own terms, if the movie just hadn't be so flat-out dreadful. Really, it almost makes one glad that Eisner is gone, so he can't see the hellish mess that Miller, a man Eisner was friendly with in life, managed to make out of his life's work. Two stars for a few moments here and there that (almost accidentally, it seems) capture some of the essence of the Eisner's masterwork. If you want to see a modern adaptation of "The Spirit" that works on it's own terms, check out Darwyn Cooke's recent comic series, but this movie just a heartbreaker.
Terrible movie! 
2009-11-09 - I really enjoyed 300 and Sin City but this movie was just plain terrible.
The acting was terrible. Plot was terrible. Cinematography was terrible.
It was a shame that you have good actors (Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson) appearing in this terrible movie.
Please save yourselves even the cost of rental. It will be a sad waste of your time and money.
What a waste.
2009-10-01 - First off I want to say that I usually give movies the benifit of the doubt and I am normally not too harsh on movies. After stating this I must say that this movie is the perfect example of waisted talent and effort. The movie had a great cast of actors who gave the most awful performances of their careers. At no time was the story even interesting. Seeing that the effects are parrallel to Sin City, I thought this movie had to have some quality to it. This movie is the G rated version of Sin City. The special effects are totally waisted by a bad script and performances. I was warned that this was not a good movie, but this movie truly owes its audience an apology.
Too... too... well, just too. 
2009-09-12 - I have never read the comics upon which this film is based, and knew next to nothing about the premise of the story when I first saw "The Spirit". I don't really know if it would've helped though. It is, in the words of another reviewer, just plain weird.
The film is haunted by a bad story, really bad story, long periods of nothing happening, stereotypical characters, lack of character depth and development, making not much sense, over acting in the extreme, and seeming like a parody/satire although it's trying to be serious. You don't really know whether to cringe your toes in sheer embarassment on behalf of the otherwise so brilliant Frank Miller, or laugh your head off.
There are good things about the film though. It is visually very stunning, if a bit too reminiscent of "Sin City". There are some quite clever scenes, which makes it rather amusing at times, as for example the samurai scene, in which the bad guys (being lead by Samuel Jackson) are all dressed up like samurais, or indeed the nazi scene, in which the bad guys are dressed as nazis. The final showdown takes you back to "Hot Shots part Deux", or some such thing, and you don't know... well, anything, really.
I wouldn't recommend it, unless you are a bunch of lads with a fridge full of beer and nothing else to do. Then you can watch it as a piece satire and laugh and laugh and laugh.
2,5 stars.
