The Spirit
The film follows the rookie cop Denny Colt who is brutally killed and somehow brought back to life under the alias of The Spirit. With the newly acquired supernatural power, The Spirit is assigned to keep the city in peace, especially when The Octopus appears and plans to wipe out the entire city to gain immortality.
28 March 1971, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
12 April 1947, Brooklyn, New York, USA
September 11, 1984 in Connecticut, USA
27 January 1957, Olney, Maryland, USA
June 20, 1981
19 December 1957, Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA
21 December 1953, Red Bank, New Jersey, USA
September 29, 2012
Frank Miller will undoubtedly make a movie worth watching one day, but it isn't The Spirit.
September 24, 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. I don't really know why.
December 29, 2008
I thought it was sort of cool and corny simultaneously.
August 26, 2009
If Frank Miller is aiming for camp, he's playing cricket with a sledgehammer
December 29, 2008
Denny Colt might have come back from the dead, but The Spirit stays cold on the slab.
December 29, 2008
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.
April 13, 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.
December 29, 2008
Someone get this man a decent script.
April 01, 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 an audience of one is going to be to anyone else.
January 05, 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. 'The Spirit' is such a film.
June 02, 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.
