Spirit, The

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Pass. DVD.

Summary

I was pretty disappointed by this film. I like the "comic book film" genre in general, and the films approach to reproducing the graphic style, while not original, was initially engaging. After about 10 minutes though, I'd moved passed that and found there wasn't much else there. The characters were flat, the plot sophomoric, and the narrative devices distracting.

If you toned down the sex and violence a bit, you'd maybe have a good film for the 12-14 year old boy demo. As is, I'm not really sure who the movies aimed at. The action is posed and stilted--appropriate to the aesthetic, but not very engaging--so it's not as if the movie can skate by as action vehicle. There's some sexy women, but without any tits, I don't think you get much traction from that vector either. Samuel L. Jackson is about the only thing going for that movie, but watching him play-that-character-he-plays is not nearly enough to carry a film. Is there now a Snakes on the Plane sub-genre of terrible movies that try and rely entirely on SLJ? (Similar to the Van Damme or Seagal effect.)