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Though its visuals are unique, The Spirit's plot is almost incomprehensible, the dialogue is ludicrously mannered, and the characters are unmemorable.
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As an action director Miller is almost as clumsy as Baz Luhrmann, but he's far from naïve, and presumably the delirium of The Spirit is exactly what he intended. Feb 13, 2009 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
As an action director Miller is almost as clumsy as Baz Luhrmann, but he's far from naïve, and presumably the delirium of The Spirit is exactly what he intended.
Jake Wilson
Every once in a while a genuine turkey escapes the coop, bereft of charm or wit, utterly lacking in technical prowess, integrity or intelligence. 'The Spirit' is such a film. Jan 5, 2009 | Rating: 1/6 | Full Review…
Every once in a while a genuine turkey escapes the coop, bereft of charm or wit, utterly lacking in technical prowess, integrity or intelligence. 'The Spirit' is such a film.
Tom Huddlestone
Miller shoots it in the inky graphic style of Sin City, but he clearly hasn't a clue how to stage a scene, or shoot it, and he singly fails to animate his actors. Jan 5, 2009 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Miller shoots it in the inky graphic style of Sin City, but he clearly hasn't a clue how to stage a scene, or shoot it, and he singly fails to animate his actors.
Tom Charity
Frank Miller's adaptation of the antique comic strip by Will Eisner is brash, noisy and so alarmingly ill-paced that it should, by rights, come with a software package that allows viewers to recut it as they see fit. Jan 5, 2009 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Frank Miller's adaptation of the antique comic strip by Will Eisner is brash, noisy and so alarmingly ill-paced that it should, by rights, come with a software package that allows viewers to recut it as they see fit.
Xan Brooks
What is most striking about The Spirit is how little pleasure it affords, in spite of its efforts to by sly, sexy, heartfelt and clever all at once. Dec 29, 2008 | Rating: 1.5/5
What is most striking about The Spirit is how little pleasure it affords, in spite of its efforts to by sly, sexy, heartfelt and clever all at once.
A.O. Scott
I thought it was sort of cool and corny simultaneously. Dec 29, 2008
I thought it was sort of cool and corny simultaneously.
Ben Mankiewicz
The Spirit is the very definition of style over substance. Oct 30, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The Spirit is the very definition of style over substance.
Nikki Baughan
If Will Eisner's comic and legacy was a flag, Miller would be that person stomping it in to the ground and lighting it on fire. Apr 13, 2017 | Full Review…
If Will Eisner's comic and legacy was a flag, Miller would be that person stomping it in to the ground and lighting it on fire.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Frank Miller will undoubtedly make a movie worth watching one day, but it isn't The Spirit. Sep 29, 2012 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Frank Miller will undoubtedly make a movie worth watching one day, but it isn't The Spirit.
Ali Gray
The Spirit feels like an extended trip through Frank Miller's personal fantasyland, and it's easy to guess how interesting a film made for an audience of one is going to be to anyone else. Apr 1, 2011 | Rating: 3.5/10 | Full Review…
The Spirit feels like an extended trip through Frank Miller's personal fantasyland, and it's easy to guess how interesting a film made for an audience of one is going to be to anyone else.
Joshua Starnes
I guess a movie this brassy, sumptuous, and unafraid of what-the-hell effects, gags and visuals isn't enough for a lot of people. I don't really know why. Sep 24, 2010 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
I guess a movie this brassy, sumptuous, and unafraid of what-the-hell effects, gags and visuals isn't enough for a lot of people. I don't really know why.
Rob Gonsalves
A blissfully coked-out-of-its-mind spit-take on Eisner and the modern world of superhero cinema, The Spirit is wet bag of hot breath. Jun 2, 2010 | Rating: D+ | Full Review…
A blissfully coked-out-of-its-mind spit-take on Eisner and the modern world of superhero cinema, The Spirit is wet bag of hot breath.
Brian Orndorf
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