The Spirit (2008) Critic Reviews

The Spirit is uneven, but its campy adventure provides some amusing, escapist fun.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

There are good things to be said about The Spirit, but not enough of them to outweigh the bad.Read the full review

Miller's flat, humorless yarn is set in Central City, a vacant metropolis whose only residents seem to be cops and crooks.Read the full review

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

The movie's cleverest idea is to give the Octopus identical clone henchmen with names like Phobos, Logos, and Huevos, all played by Louis Lombardi with a marvelous fat-boy idiot grin.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

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 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