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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…

Review of The Spirit (1987)

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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By James Rocchi (1,075) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 04 Jan 2009

Violent, sexy superhero flick is all style, no substance…

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By Rob Humanick (476) for Suite101.com (114) on 04 Jan 2009

[There is] no consistency or rhythm to its visual tangents, which splotch about frantically, desperately, like diarrhea spraying about the…

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By Vic Holtreman (121) for ScreenRant (1,013) on 02 Jan 2009

The Spirit is two hours of your life that you'll never get back…

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By Victor Olliver (198) for Teletext (251) on 02 Jan 2009

A movie trailer can give unintended clues as to what to expect - The Spirit's (see it on YouTube if you missed it) is one long piece of chaos…

Review of The Spirit (1987)

By Rich Cline (3,056) for Shadows on the Wall (2,096) on 01 Jan 2009

This screen adaptation of Will Eisner's beloved comic books is intriguing enough to be watchable, but is so chaotic that it doesn't work at all…

Review of The Spirit (1987)

By Tim Brayton (2,283) for Antagony & Ecstasy (1,911) on 31 Dec 2008

It's not just that it's obvious from the train wreck onscreen that Miller hasn't ever truly directed a movie before; it's hard to tell if he's…

Review of The Spirit (1987)

By Ken Hanke (2,234) for Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (2,247) on 31 Dec 2008

It makes sport of both comic books and hard-boiled detective fiction, yet it does so by utilizing and adhering to the conventions of each…

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