The Spirit (2008)

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1. 

   Siskoid

   I won't act like I'm an expert on Will Eisner's The Spirit, but Frank Miller's movie version is really just a Sin City movie with terrible humor in it. Between its over-serious, macho voice-over and cartoon humor, it looks like a sketch parody that's been extended to 100 minutes. Just not one that's funny (give or take the interplay between Sam Jackson, Scarjo and the clones, which might have worked in a whole other movie). The actual Spirit's tone is better suited to the comics page (and short stories). Miller can't achieve whimsical humor because he's too sadistic, and his idea of a joke is someone dropping their pants. So you're left with a lot of style for style's sake, but the attempt to fit as many characters from the strip as possible just complicates things because they've been remixed so heavily and they're just sketched in anyway. In a way, the fact that Miller doesn't have a handle on the material shows up in how he includes references to people who have NOTHING to do with the Spirit, like Ditko or the guys who founded DC Comics. One small pleasure is seeing Stana Katic play a rookie cop who everyone thinks is gonna make detective quite quickly, a year before Castle starts production. But I don't think I can credit Miller for that one. 3 years ago
2. 

   dpanter

   Zero redeeming qualities. The studio should have shut this project down, burned the footage and locked Frank Miller in the slammer for a couple of years.
   Who the f*ck decided that casting Gabriel Macht in the lead role was a good idea? The man is as charismatic as a broken brick.
   
   Not recommended. 12 years 4 months ago
3. 

   Jaqo

   Holy crap, this was B A D! What did Frank Miller smoke before he started shooting this movie?? It's so sad to see talented actors waste their time with such a disasterous pyle of crap! 12 years 6 months ago

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