It seems like more and more comic book movies come out every year. Some, like Batman or Spider-Man everybody knows about. Some lesser known ones, such as; Road to Perdition or Hellboy, and now the Spirit come along as well and introduce movie-goers to a world they did not know about, and hopefully give them a reason to look more into the subject matter. In the case of the Spirit, it's not so easy though. The Spirit was a comic book detective/adventurer created by the legendary Will Eisner. Frank Miller, who wrote, produced, and directed the film incarnation is the brain behind Sin City and 300. Those are great books and moves respectively, but he did something to the Spirit that I did not really understand. The dialogue was classic Frank Miller, no doubt about it, and the look was very Sin City. Both things are very enjoyable... in their element. The Spirit doesn't really belong there though. It did have it's share of funny moments and it looked great, but I think there were some serious mistakes made on the production side. Sam Jackson was great, as usual, and the rest of the cast was only impressive at times. It was very flashy, and quirky, but lacked substance, which always makes me sad. If you've seen it, good! If not, you can probably get away with waiting for it to come out on DVD.
I give The Spirit a 5 outta 10.
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