THE SPIRIT Reviews are in: Will it give up the ghost at the box office?

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Posted By: webhead
Post Time: 12-25-2008 at 02:34 PM
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THE SPIRIT reviews are in, and they aren't very spirited:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_spirit/?page=1&critic=columns&sortby=date&name_order=asc&view=#contentReviews

"The best thing about The Spirit is that it was directed by [Frank] Miller....The worst thing about The Spirit is that it was written by Frank Miller."

"Frank Miller's first solo effort as a director is an entertaining, if forgettable, cinematic imagining of Will Eisner's classic superhero The Spirit."

"There is not a trace of human emotion in it. To call the characters cardboard is to insult a useful packing material."

"A cinematic lump of coal in the Christmas stockings of comic fans everywhere."

"A disaster in nearly every way. Samuel L. Jackson seems to be channeling Grace Jones by way of Uncle Remus from Song of the South."

"The Spirit does not believe in itself. It thinks comics are a joke -- and it appears to think that movies are a joke, too."

"Marred by hammy overacting and horrendous writing by a filmmaker who clearly doesn't share Eisner's charming sense of humor."

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