Titreenp
SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?
TrueHello
Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
Taraparain
Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.
Anoushka Slater
While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
FountainPen
Don't waste your time, not even for Eva Mendes! I've watched & reviewed 1000s of movies... this one doesn't cut it ! 3/10
Zipper69
Eisner's "Spirit" is, rightly a comic book icon. The lushly inked originals were full of action, humor and off the wall antics.Miller has completely lost sight of any of those memes and offers instead "Sin City" lite with a painfully awkward leading man who fails to fill the goofy stuck-on mask of the original.Jackson's "villain" is a leering "angry black man" lacking motive and style despite numerous costume changes.The female parts are all decorative but wasted on a horribly underwritten screenplay and lackluster direction. Very disappointing.
lar_lef
An attempt to join noir to kitsch which doesn't succeed.Some interesting photography, but it too goes overboard sometimes. I gave it an extra point for attempt. Too bad such a heavily budgeted movie couldn't come up with something better. The (comic) book was better than the movie.
Eddie Cantillo
The Spirit(2008) Starring: Gabriel Macht, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, Eva Mendes, Paz Vega, Jaime King, Dan Lauria, Sarah Paulson, Stana Katic, Frank Miller, and Eric Balfour Directed By: Frank Miller Review I'm gonna kill you all kinds of dead. This is not just the worst comic book movie ever made.This is one of the worst films I have ever seen.The Syle was very unnecessary it does nothing to service the characters, nothing to service the plot, service the story, it does nothing but be a distraction from the fact that the film has nothing to offer. That's all it does and it pisses me off because of all the great things I hear about Sin City(2005). Heck this style could easily work for a freaking Batman movie. But for this it did nothing except made a mockery of how ingenious that style was on film. Frank Miller just looked a t Robert Rodriguez and smacked him in the face with his penis. The writing is so terrible and it was said in a review that Frank Miller can not write women unless their freaking whores, and its so freaking true. Unless their dressed in like a slutty fashion or being sluts their is nothing their. Because every damn women in this movie is made to be eye candy. Even Eva Mendes who they try to pas off as a bad ass assassin and they use her for eye candy every two seconds. And I can't take it seriously. The acting in the movie is beyond, beyond,beyond atrocious and Samuel L. Jackson Oh my God. Sam Jackson is so terrible in this I mean his delivery for his shitty dialogue is atrocious. You want to know how lame the action scenes are in this movie. You ever heard the phrase they threw everything but the kitchen sink, Samuel L. Jackson throws a freaking kitchen sink at The Spirit in this movie. He throws a kitchen sink. Frank Miller a man who has given me my favorite version of Daredevil and the freaking Dark Knight returns, he gave you Sin City! This man is such a talented writer I do understand that this is first screenplay but this man has been writing comics for years and believe it or not but their is not much difference in writing a screenplay for a comic book and a movie. So he has no excuse their. I freaking hated this movie I'm giving the Spirit a half out of five.
