"The Spirit" - 1.5 out of 4 Stars

I was always in denial about how this movie could be bad, because i thought it looked amazing. I went in with the lowest expectations, only looking forward to the visual style and artistic backgrounds and wasn't disappointed, because the movie really wasn't that good at all.

At times it's good for a laugh and you begin to like some of the characters, but there are too many bad lines and it's even worse how their delivered. Miller tried to make everyone act in a 40's cheesy noir feel in a way to bring it back and make it be good, but he ultimately fails. Writing and comic and directing a movie are too VERY different things i hope he learns from this movie.

The Spirit, i thought, had a chance to be an iconic character (like if you see the superman symbol, you know who that is. If you see an all-black clad hero with a red tie, fedora and mask you know its the Spirit). But i almost think everything good about this movie is just wasted material because the story and acting is horrible. There were too many long, boring moments like when we discover Sand Saref's connection to the Spirit, or when the police chief talks to his daughter about the Spirit. The actual story of Octopus and the genetic engineering and the blood of Hercules and immortality and stuff was a complete WTF. This movie makes you feel like a crime noir, and Miller tries too hard to show that, then he brings you immortality ad Greek Gods and stuff. If they didn't have that and left how the Spirit is invincible to a mystery, almost like how the Joker popped up out of nowhere in the dark knight, it would have added to a certain mystique which would have made us care a little bit more about the Spirit like who is he really and how did he come to be? A lot of stuff is just randomly thrown in there and there's no easy flow to the movie. At times it's boring as all hell, next the screen explodes in colors and action and it's awesome.

Oh, yea the visuals were the thing that made me like this movie at all. It's awesome seeing the silhouette of the Spirit and his red tie flapping in the wind or him just running about in iconic poses. If this movie would have dropped the noir feel and made a movie in a normal atmosphere, with good acting and revolved around a crime war story more then searching for immortality, it would have been that much greater. I haven't read the comic at all so i don't know if these story points are in the comic but yea.

Overall:

1.5 our of 4 stars.