Synopsis
A Rookie cop named Denny Colt returns from the beyond as The Spirit, a hero whose mission is to fight against the bad forces from the shadows of Central City. The Octopus, who kills anyone unfortunate enough to see his face, has other plans; he is going to wipe out the entire city.
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Cast
- Gabriel MachtThe Spirit / Denny Colt
- Scarlett JohanssonSilken Floss
- Samuel L. JacksonOctopus
- Eva MendesSand Saref
- Paz VegaPlaster of Paris
- Jaime KingLorelei Rox
- Dan LauriaDolan
- Sarah PaulsonEllen Dolan
- Stana KaticMorgenstern
- Frank MillerLiebowitz
Recommendations
- 63
USA Today
The Spirit is uneven, but its campy adventure provides some amusing, escapist fun. - 50
ReelViews
There are good things to be said about The Spirit, but not enough of them to outweigh the bad. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
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. - 38
New York Post
With its starkly contrasted visuals (fierce blacks, Clorox whites, a dash of unholy crimson), The Spirit may resemble a comic book more than any live-action film yet made, but it makes "Max Payne" look like a gleaming jewel of storytelling by comparison. - 38
Boston Globe
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. - 30
Variety
Plunges into a watery grave early on and spends roughly the next 100 minutes gasping for air. - 25
Chicago Sun-Times
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. - 25
Chicago Tribune
Only Sarah Paulson, as the Spirit's doctor and sometime lover, seems to be in there playing the scenes as if she were a human being in a comic book superhero scenario, as opposed to a comic book character stuck in a cruddy movie.
