The Spirit (2008) Critic Reviews
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Based upon 12 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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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.Read the full review
Doesn't just play like a cheap "Batman" knockoff, it plays like a cheap "Batman" knockoff that knows it's a cheap "Batman" knockoff -- and wants to be sure everybody knows it knows.Read the full review
The Spirit is uneven, but its campy adventure provides some amusing, escapist fun.Read the full review
There are good things to be said about The Spirit, but not enough of them to outweigh the bad.Read the full review
Plunges into a watery grave early on and spends roughly the next 100 minutes gasping for air.Read the full review
It is truly a mess.Read the full review
The Spirit feels like the follow-up to "Batman & Robin" no one wanted.Read the full review
As the vamps, Eva Mendes and Scarlett Johansson might be posing for a fashion spread with just one note to play -- gorgeous high-bitch mockery.Read the full review
Throwing your $10.25 down a storm drain is a better idea; at least that way you won't feel the added self-loathing of wasting more than an hour and a half of your life watching Eva Mendes in the worst acting job of her career.Read the full review
The Spirit is mannered to the point of madness. There is not a trace of human emotion in it. To call the characters cardboard is to insult a useful packing material.Read the full review
