THE SPIRIT(2008)
This was one cool movie! Similar to Sin City, but not as
gory! The visuals are wonderful, the acting great, the
script written in an old 40's style of superhero movies,
and the music is perfect! A great movie worth many
watches!!! A+
A review from Amazon:
Moments of startling beauty punctuate the comic-book
action flick The Spirit, written and directed by Frank Miller,
the legendary writer/artist behind the reinventions of
superheroes like Daredevil and Batman and the creator
of the comic books of Sin City and 300. The Spirit (Gabriel
Macht, Because I Said So)--once a beat cop named Denny
Colt, now a resilient masked crime-fighter who returned
from the dead--tangles with his nemesis, the Octopus
(Samuel L. Jackson), and a slew of slinky dames along
the way (played by Scarlett Johansson, Paz Vega, Jaime
King, and more). But the real struggle is the Spirit being
pulled between the girl he loved once (Eva Mendes) and
the girl he loves now (Sarah Paulson, Down With Love).
Miller applies his trademarked hyperbolic tough-guy
approach--a perverse mixture of ultraviolence and
melodramatic sentimentality--to the whimsical 1940s
detective hero created by Will Eisner. Unfortunately,
the combination is unlikely to satisfy fans of either
artist; The Spirit is a mishmash of cliches and half-baked
plots, plucking threads from several of Eisner's puckish
tales but never reweaving them into a satisfying new
story. The actresses provide plenty of eye-candy but
little substance, while Macht is just bland. But Miller
has an undeniable eye; the movie, with its exaggerated
artificial visual style, is littered with images that dazzle
and ravish. --Bret Fetzer