ROTTEN TOMATOES: Eva Mendes Has The Spirit

Eva Mendes Has The Spirit

Macht, Jackson, and Johansson have company.

by Jeff Giles | August 22, 2007

After playing it close to the vest for months, Frank Miller's camp has lately unleashed a flood of casting news about the director's adaptation of Will Eisner's The Spirit. First came word that Gabriel Macht would play the title role, and face off against Samuel L. Jackson, then we learned that Scarlett Johansson would play the femme fatale Silk N. Floss, and now Variety is reporting another addition to the talent pool.

According to the article, Eva Mendes has signed on, although a specific role isn't mentioned. (If you're just joining us now, The Spirit is based on Eisner's classic comics, in which a cop fakes his own death in order to fight crime as...well, The Spirit.)

At this point, The Spirit gives every indication of being much better than Mendes' most recent comic-derived project, Ghost Rider. Fans can see her this fall in the Joaquin Phoenix/Mark Wahlberg cop drama We Own the Night (covered in our Fall Movie Preview!).

Source: Variety

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cgcbooks writes:
on Aug 22 2007 05:03 AM

This is terrible news. This woman cannot act. Her acting in Ghost Rider was atrocious. Cindy Crawford has more range. A very bad choice.

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Gimy writes:
on Aug 22 2007 05:24 AM

name one person in ghost rider who DID act well. quit overreacting...at least there's going to be some hot chicas in this. although i love alba(minus her herpes)...she wasn't exactly an oscar winner in Sin City was she?? hurray for b33bies...

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Evimeleth writes:
on Aug 22 2007 05:33 AM

God, I hate Eva Mendes. Even if she managed to do some superb acting, it still would look like mediocre acting. She has this Cinemax-softcore-movie-reject look that just makes her seem like she was acting bad even when she's trying hard.

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Movie person writes:
on Aug 22 2007 08:15 AM

I saw the trailer for We Own the Night, and she was just there randomly. "Oh, and it also stars Eva Mendes."

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nickb1016 writes:
on Aug 22 2007 10:40 AM

ok she is not that bad. She was good in Stuck on You, Hitch, Out of Time, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, and she is supposed to be great in Live. So what if Ghost Rider wasnt good, even Nicolas Cage couldnt pull that one off. Im pretty sure that if she was a Skinemax reject she wouldnt be offered a role by Frank Miller

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rockster11 writes:
on Aug 22 2007 12:29 PM

Big Boobs and Not one ounce of acting skill. Sad.

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mjolson20 writes:
on Aug 22 2007 04:26 PM

In reply to this comment (#1062739)
jessica alba has herpes?

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nickb1016 writes:
on Aug 22 2007 06:21 PM

and im sure that u have niether rockster 11

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CoUcH ToMaToE DoUgIe writes:
on Aug 22 2007 08:42 PM

In reply to this comment (#1064619)
mjolson20, would any infectious disease keep you, I, or any man, and women

too i bet, away from jessica alba in any way. she is an incredible sex symbol and we

all know she is irresistable and she will only get hotter and hopefully get a role that

cements her all time sex icon status. AND of course it would help if she could act but

hey never stop OH SO MANY actors and actresses from winning legimite recognition from

the public and critics. so please if she has herpes then you know what disese has

just a whole lot sexier;)

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CoUcH ToMaToE DoUgIe writes:
on Aug 22 2007 09:10 PM

SO BACK TO THE EVA NEWS. well, there goes the bloom on the spirit's rose.

what happened to frank and his integrity or taste. at least a jessica alba is an all

time sex icon with little talent and eva even has less talent and her beauty does not

match hers. i mean it takes a lot to act worse when the bad nic cage shows up and she

did with enough to tell everyone beware putting on her in your film. i mean seriously

miller rarely shows such a lack of awareness and by doing this he has ruined the good

feelings about this beloved character. now, hey alba did a good job on sin city, so i

guess if eva gets a similar "type" of role maybe it can be salvaged. i can only hope and

please i love looking at her and fantasing about her but i just don't want to see

another beloved character, ghost rider, be destroyed by a beautiful, sexy but

untalented babe. folks, will eisner does not need to see frank ruined his icon by

hiring eva and i JUST HOPE EVA PROVES ME WRONG! still, gonna see though no matter what!

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wordweaver writes:
on Sep 05 2007 09:57 PM

Eva mendes is one of those actresses who are not all that talented bu their beauty is taking them somewhere. But atleast the girl has some range, Jessica Alba is a sad, sad, sad ,sad case. She is such a bad actress I can't still believe she is getting more roles. All she does is look at the screen and flaunt her beauty. She should be a commercial model for covergirl( ANTM would have been a good place to start for her) and not an actress. Look at what she did in Fantastic Four, she destroyed the legacy of Susan storm by her lazy presence on screen. She doesn't even makes an effort to act, kinda reminds me of Jessica Simpson in The Dukes of Hazzard. Well what can I say, sex sells in Hollywood.

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lumbeegirl02 writes:
on Oct 11 2007 11:47 AM

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