| ![The Spirit (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy and BD Live) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51mXovngRvL.jpg) | Director: Frank Miller
Actors: Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes, Samuel L. Jackson, Gabriel Macht, Sarah Paulson
Studio: Lions Gate
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Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 108 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: 25325
UPC: 031398108450
EAN: 0031398108450
ASIN: B001RHGRSY
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: April 14, 2009
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Condition: This item is in Very Good condition. May show signs of light wear.
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 Pseudo-entertaining May 17, 2009
SnS (Crossville, TN)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I saw Sin City. I loved it. I saw 300. I loved it. Naturally when I saw another film from from the same minds coming out I thought, "How could this miss?"
Maybe it was high hopes. Maybe I was expecting something that clearly this film was not. I am willing to accept that, on some ground, the failure of this film was my fault. However, this is a film struggling to find itself. It shows us a gritty, Sin-City-esque exterior with all the flair of its predecessors, yet manages to go like a bat out of hell in the other direction. It reminded me of a take on Evil Dead 2. A movie with the heart of a horror, but was really intended to be a comedy. It is the only excuse I can find for the inane babble that simply detracts from the overall story and ultimately loses you. Yet it is the odd costumes and odder characters that makes someone look at the screen in stunned horror. Clones with their names on their shirts? Check. Samuel L Jackson in a fur coat and a pimp hat smashing a toilet over our heros head? Check. A full zoot suit with Keds? Check.
I realize in the end that movies are an art form and frankly, what appeals to one will not appeal to another. However, that being said, this film fell flat in the first ten minutes and never really rose again. In the end this film should be rented with caution. It is either a film you will get or you won't. And if you don't, no stylish camera work or art work will save it.
 good comic book tribute movie. May 2, 2009
Michael P. Dobey (colorado springs)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
All movies are in fact storyboarded like a comic book. Well at least most of them are. "The Spirit" is a tribute to the great Will Eisner who changed comic books and opened them up both in style and in content
back in the 1940's and for many years later.
The Spirit was always eccentric and not your average story in comics. This movie tries to stay close to that legacy. Most of these overly critical people obviously have never read the spirit comic books that are available out there in book form as well. They bought this expecting 300 or a standard movie superhero, but the spirit was never that. I love the standard comic heroic figure, but to make the spirit like them would betray what Will Eisner had created. So Frank Miller deserves kudos for his work on this movie. It's alot of fun and not for everyone but it shines on blu ray. The acting is not weak either it's just in line with the Spirit legacy. The picture is excellent and the directing solid as any miller movie, however every miller movie is existing is a strange place that doesn't reflect reality so that's what you get here. If you want a regular superhero story then perhaps this movie isn't for you but if you want a movie that is as eccentric as the comic strip; then you will enjoy this one.
So bad, yet I was entertained April 30, 2009
Monkdude (Hampton, Virginia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Spirit is full of bad acting and writing, but I have to admit that I was never bored. I just couldn't wait to see how this mess could get any worse. Believe it or not I didn't hate this movie nearly as much as I thought I would. The eye candy from all the beautiful ladies sure helped, but at least this flick didn't take itself too seriously (whoa Sam Jackson), like the even larger pile of garbage called Max Payne. On the plus side, the visuals while nothing new after Sin City, are quite good. Just sit back and prepare to have a ton of unintentional laughs. Good times.
 The Spirit..A Brief Opinion April 29, 2009
James Whelan (New Jersey)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I liked it. The cinematography was interesting and reminiscent of Sin City. As for the plot, light, out of the 40's and amusing. The actors did a fine job given the kind of script they had and they fit well into the "atmosphere" the film created. It's not easy to make a comic book into a movie, but Miller's attempt to do so...and to do so well...made this film worthwhile for me.
 Not Sin City or even 300, by any means April 27, 2009
J. B Kraft (Palestine, TX United States)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Frank Miller writing and directing and a big time cast -- what's not to like? Pretty much everything, sadly.
I really love the movie Sin City and found The 300 quite enjoyable the first few times I watched it, so I have been waiting for this on Blu Ray for some time.
Let's start with the positives, because sadly there are few of them. We have a generally first class ensemble of actors, all of who have done credible work in their careers. Given the provenance of this movie, who among them didn't tell their agents to do whatever it took to get them in this movie, because it should have been formidable. We have a rehash of the same animation techniques that were so riveting and plot enhancing in Sin City. Sadly that's about it.
Frank Miller does not seem to understand Directing 101 -- the art of putting a point of interest in the frame and keeping it there. He does not seem to be able to communicate what he wants to his good cast.
We learn at the beginning our hero really loves "his city"; and at the end, we learn he really loves his city . . . and he's 'the Spirit' of the city. What that means or why he loves it, I haven't a clue, nor is it apparent why he no longer either loves his former wife and current doctor (how does it work out that she sews him up? does she still think he's dead? does the simple mask keep her from telling?) We never can be sure in this muddle. And what about the childhood sweetheart who abandoned our young hero for the fast life of big time theft and multiple marriages? Does our hero still love her? All we know is he loves his city.
This is a movie which simply can't decide whether it's a stylish film noir drama or camp. The characters are constantly interrupted by having to say or react to lines that are clumsy and exactly opposite the emotion the movie has spent the previous 5 minutes laboriously trying to establish. We have a bad guy who dissolves white persian kittens -- how bad is that? In fact, my dog did like the fact there were some many cats in the movie, and she retained her interest better than the rest of the family. Samuel L. Jackson as a Nazi -- what an incredibly far-fetched and bad idea -- with no satisfactory explanation. "He is what he is."
Lines are bad, and self-contradicting dialog is sprayed like submachine gun fire. There are ideas which must have been an attempt at parody, but one is too confused and distracted to get them, because one is obsessed ferociously tryng to understand who is doing what to whom and why one should care. To give you an idea of the emotional chasms we are trying to navigate here, imagine Adam West as the Batman in the original Godfather, while Smokey and the Bandit run through it.
While the animation and sets were usefully dark and foreboding in Sin City, in this movie they are ludicrous . . . more like "The Spy Who Shagged Me", filmed in black, pitch black, dark black, charcoal gray and white. Sin City was actually much more effective in my opinion as animation.
I'm sure there are worse "big budget" movies in the past, but it's so hard for me to remember one at the moment. My advice is unless you really know the original material (comic books), take a pass on this film. It's a couple of hours of confusion interrupted by boredom.
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