Spawn Critic Reviews

It walks and talks like a big budget horror film, heavy on special effects and pitched at the teenage audience, and maybe that's how it will be received. But it's more impressive if you ignore the genre and just look at what's on the screen.Read the full review

The special effects are effective and aggressive, although one might occasionally confuse a divine vortex with a flushed toilet.Read the full review

Spawn doesn't make a lot of sense, but the imagery whooshes by in glitzy psychedelic torrents.Read the full review

Unfortunately, where the movie falls apart is in the storyline. While Spawn fans may be delighted by this effort, the uninitiated may have a hard time getting beyond the fancy special effects and often-incoherent plot.Read the full review

The nonsensical screenplay can barely stand-up to the hellzapoppin, Beelzebubbin effects mustered by first-time director Mark Dippe.Read the full review

Almost every moment has flashes and explosions and a pulsing, relentless soundtrack. It's like being trapped inside a video game.Read the full review

Spawn is a moodily malevolent, anything-goes revenge fantasy that relies more upon special visual and digitally animated effects for its intended appeal than any comics-derived sci-fier to date.Read the full review