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By Felix Vasquez Jr. (1,949) for Cinema Crazed (1,907) on 12 Apr 2017

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…

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By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 31 Mar 2011

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…

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By Rob Gonsalves (1,031) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 23 Sep 2010

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…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 01 Jun 2010

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…

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By Fernando F. Croce (840) for CinePassion (694) on 25 Aug 2009

If Frank Miller is aiming for camp, he's playing cricket with a sledgehammer…

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By Nick Setchfield (27) for SFX Magazine (298) on 11 May 2009

No amount of flash can camouflage the career-low performances, the scaffolding where characterisation should be, the pitiful cod '40s dialogue,…

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By Edward Havens (184) for FilmJerk.com (622) on 28 Apr 2009

More interested in being a technical marvel than a coherent story…

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By Pablo Villaça (1,590) for Cinema em Cena (1,589) on 20 Mar 2009

Soa como uma mistura desajeitada de filme noir e da série de tevê Batman produzida na década de 60…

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By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 13 Feb 2009

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…

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By David Stratton (799) for The Australian (781) on 06 Feb 2009

Miller's background as an artist was undoubtedly an important factor in achieving the striking visual effects…

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By Jason Di Rosso (253) for MovieTime, ABC Radio National (314) on 30 Jan 2009

It's a plot from the 'more is more' school of scriptwriting and while the live action crossed with stylised graphic novel effect is sublime,…

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By Kimberly Gadette (432) for Indie Movies Online (213) on 08 Jan 2009

Miller's directing chops, er, chop, is non-existent, offering up a muck of amateurish posturing, weak storyline and tedious characters…

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By Jackie K. Cooper (1,018) for jackiekcooper.com (943) on 06 Jan 2009

Eva Mendes is the new Raquel Welch but even Raquel/Eva can't make this movie work…

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By Tom Huddlestone (75) for Time Out (7,510) on 05 Jan 2009

Every once in a while a genuine turkey escapes the coop, bereft of charm or wit, utterly lacking in technical prowess, integrity or intelligence…

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By Tom Charity (192) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 05 Jan 2009

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…

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By Xan Brooks (287) for Guardian (4,584) on 05 Jan 2009

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,…

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By Rob Daniel (202) for Sky Cinema (1,726) on 05 Jan 2009

The Spirit's greatest crime is that it is so boring - encapsulated in a scene where the Spirit and the Octopus slug it out for an eternity…

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By Matthew Turner (2,508) for ViewLondon (2,339) on 05 Jan 2009

Miller's adaptation certainly looks impressive and the female characters are all drop-dead gorgeous in a Sin City way, but the script and story…

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By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 05 Jan 2009

Now that they've gone and made Batman all serious and good, the campy comics hero movie mantle has been taken up by The Spirit…

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By Kim Newman (791) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 05 Jan 2009

Displaying admirable love for pulp material and striking enviably sexy poses, but missing the emotional resonance, zeitgeist-catching populism…

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