The Spirit
PG 13
This spirit is soulless. Frank
Miller's adaptation of the aged comic strip, Spirit, is a cross between his
noirish carnival ride, Sin City and the 1990s flop flick Dick Tracy remake.
Really Spirit should be the Shadow mixed with Phantom from the 30s. It
shouldn't look like Sin City either. The original concept of Spirit being an
actual ghost, (i.e . the living dead) and San Serif actually being the good
girl, is tossed out the window. They confused her with another one called Gill.
Then Gabriel Macht battles Sam Jackson in cutesy noirish dialog which comes out
sometimes funny but mostly embarrassing, setting the comic book adaptation
movie genre back a decade. Like the dreaded melted kitty scene, it's just all
wrong somehow, like a bad episode of The Tick (an insult to the awesome Tick).
Spirit must battle the evil Octopus for control of the city through a mythical
set of boxes from the Gods which may make them immortal, but Spirit's ex flame
is hot after those boxes also because she's turned into a greedy tart. Indestructible
hero with X Men like healing factor clotheslines and smacks around crime lords
for 2 hours. Not worth a rental. The single worst adaptation of a 30's comic
strip since The Phantom in 1995, or worse. Review by Adam Browne
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