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(1 - 29) of 29 OFCS Rating: 14% Rotten Page   1   "Frank Miller does a terrific job turning Central City into a noirish wonderland, but he doesn't find the right spirit to accompany the eye candy."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   A. J. Hakari 3/5 "Taken on its own terms...it's a beautiful bit of balderdash."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron D+ "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."   Sci-Fi Movie Page   Brian Orndorf 4/5 "a classic superhero story, with a square-jawed hero who knows how to take a punch and kiss a dame until she's weak in the knees"   Filmcritic.com   Chris Barsanti "To be fair to those embarrassed onscreen in 'The Spirit,' this movie's dialogue would tax the thespian talents of anyone."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Donald J. Levit .5/4 "A disaster in nearly every way. Samuel L. Jackson seems to be channeling Grace Jones by way of Uncle Remus from Song of the South."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman D+ "More interested in being a technical marvel than a coherent story."   FilmJerk.com   Edward Havens D "This movie has a modern kind of badness to it, the kind that's only possible in an era of mind-boggling technological advancements and de-emphasized storytelling."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider "If Frank Miller is aiming for camp, he's playing cricket with a sledgehammer"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce D- "The ultimate geek movie...Frank Miller's take on Will Eisner's semi-spectral crime-fighter comes DOA and never springs back to life."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "A welcome respite from the often extremist Comic Books Are Serious position dominating the public discussion. Just because they can be doesn't mean they always have to be."   The L Magazine   Henry Stewart 2/4 "The Spirit is an example of what can happen to a comic book-inspired movie when the sense of style becomes so pervasive that it overwhelms everything else, including an unremarkable superhero adventure."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 1/5 "Violent, sexy superhero flick is all style, no substance."   Common Sense Media   James Rocchi 1/4 "Samuel L. Jackson has hit a rock bottom with The Spirit that's comparable only to Joan Crawford's appearance in Trog."   Slant Magazine   Jeremiah Kipp "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy 1.5/4 "Frank Miller's stiff adaptation of the Will Eisner comic book character feels more like a pet project, full of gee-whiz visuals but lacking a certain, well, spirit."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito 3/5 "I didn't hate the movie. There are some scenes that are tremendously cool in the picture. If you can swallow the imitated style, it looks fantastic."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr "The Spirit does not believe in itself. It thinks comics are a joke -- and it appears to thinks that movies are a joke, too."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson C "Miller captures the letter, but what this film is lacking, in every sense of the word, is the Spirit."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow 2/5 "Soa como uma mistura desajeitada de filme noir e da série de tevê Batman produzida na década de 60."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 1/5 " Based on the evidence supplied by his solo directorial debut her, it appears that Miller's artistic contributions to "Sin City" extended no further than to fetching Robert Rodriguez some coffee and trying to peek into the dressing rooms of the actresses"   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 2/5 "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"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 0.5/4 "[There is] no consistency or rhythm to its visual tangents, which splotch about frantically, desperately, like diarrhea spraying about the outside of its porcelain target."   Suite101.com   Rob Humanick 1.5/5 "Someone should have gotten Robert Rodriguez on the phone."   Cinematical   Scott Weinberg "It's a film more designed than directed."   Parallax View   Sean Axmaker F "The Frank Miller Universe at its most reductionist, self-parodying and content-free … There is nothing at stake … only a pointless, shapeless exercise in wildly veering moods and styles."   Christianity Today   Steven D. Greydanus 2/10 "Visionary Frank Miller falls flat here, sacrificing a potential franchise. Give up on this hyper cartoon-like ghost!"   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 1/10 "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 ever even seen a movie before."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 0/4 "Time is better spent, perhaps, trying to pull out of it some sort of insight into why no one called "shenanigans" on this abortion at any point."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw  (1 - 29) of 29 OFCS Rating: 14% Rotten Page   1