Review of Spawn (1997) by Adam F — 08 Sep 2014

The HBO Animated Series is so much better than this movie, its got better characterization, better dialogue, the plot has more room to flesh out etc. Its.

Hard to take the idea that Al Simmons only kills the scum of the earth when he nonchalantly walks into an air traffic control tower and kills everybody there.

before blowing up a jet plane, a limousine entourage, and a bunch of innocent bystanders, before resigning a few scenes later, and being righteously indignant about killing so many people. Then there was the scene where Al's old boss Jason Wynn who had him killed, has a device implanted in his body that will cause the extinction of humanity by releasing a bioengineered virus if his heart ever stops beating. This was said nearly word for word by the surgeon doing the operation who then adds nobody is gonna want to kill you sir. Sheesh! What a dumb fuck! This guy couldnt be more wrong! Malbogia and The Violator tricked Wynn into making this virus, and then having the doomsday pacemaker implanted so that when SPAWN took his revenge he would flood HELL with all the doomed souls they could ever want.

Why would anybody want to put the fate of the entire world in one man's hands? This idea is wrong and fucking stupid on so many levels. For one thing this douchebag could die of natural causes and doom the rest of the world, for another thing since you have to tell your enemies that your holding the world hostage so they wont kill you, what's stopping them from spilling the beans so that you're locked away for the rest of your life?

Also the scene where Spawn kills Priest the female assassin was so stupidly cliche, especially since she told him "You dont have the guts!" Before he shot her, yeah that's original. Here's what I liked about the movie, I liked John Leguizamo's portrayal of the demon The Violator. His scenery chewing kept the movie interesting & watchable. One of my favorite scenes was where Malbogia pulled him into Hell and The Violator was bitching about how he should have been chosen to lead Malbogia's army. Malbogia picks him up by the scruff of his neck and The Violator says "And this is exactly the kind of talk you dont tolerate, right boss?" The fight between SPAWN and THE VIOLATOR was well done, and I also loved the end where THE VIOLATOR is about to rip SPAWN'S head off and Spawn saws The Violator's head off with his chains. Being a demon this doesn't kill The Violator right away like it would most normal living creatures, before melting back into Hell The Violator has time to threaten SPAWN and even ask Wanda for some head.