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Watch: The Spirit 2008 123movies, Full Movie Online – Down these mean streets a man must come. A hero born, murdered, and born again. When 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 who has other plans. He’s going to wipe out the entire city. The Spirit tracks this cold hearted killer from the city’s rundown warehouses, to the damp catacombs, to the windswept waterfront all the while facing a bevy of beautiful women who either want to seduce, love or kill the masked crusader..
Plot: Down these mean streets a man must come. A hero born, murdered, and born again. 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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Ratings:

	4.7/10 Votes: 61,581
	14% | RottenTomatoes
	30/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 819 Popularity: 12.322 | TMDB

Reviews:

A better experience if you know what to expect.
(Before i start commenting on this, let me just say that whoever came up with the trailers and the promotional material for this movie ought to be smacked over the head with a toilet bowl. This movie was advertised like “Sin City 1.5 meets Batman Begins” when it was NOTHING AT ALL like Sin city or Batman. )

If someone told me that FRANK MILLER was to be making a movie based on another’s comic, the last thing i would expect is a strict faithfulness to the original. If there is one thing Frank Miller is famous for, it is taking something and recreating it to such an extent that defies public perception with little regard for the resulting backlash.

Take Batman. In an age where Batman was still campy and fun, he created “Dark Knight Returns” in which Batman was a bitter, obsessed senior citizen living in a hard edged world where corruption, crime and mutants run amok; effectively hurling a proverbial “Miller-pie” into the faces the campy batman, the creators of the campy comics and the fans.

For the Spirit he did the same and ended up creating not just a complete re-imaging but an over-the-top fun ride of a movie.

The Spirit is a breath of fresh air in an age where superhero movies strive to be more and more “serious” and “down to earth”. This highly stylized movie wholeheartedly embraces the definition of the word “comic”(which means “amusing” or “funny”)and revels in poking fun at not just comic books in general, but a wide variety of genre. It is to superhero movies like what Austin Powers is to James Bond movies.

The Spirit comic book by Will Eisner was a product of the 1940s that continued into the 1950s where it ended. In a stroke of twisted genius, Frank Miller takes every chance to hurl “Miller-pies” at every other film genre that was famous during the Spirit’s heyday of the 1940s and 50s. Mystery stories, film noir cop dramas, slap stick comedy like “3 stooges, romantic melodramas, “, world war 2 propaganda, cartoons etc. Even Akira Kurosawa’s Samurai films and Japanese anime are not spared the satire. Where the comic was a product of its time, this movie is a clever, cheeky amalgam of every other product of that time.

At every turn, this movie defies expectations. For 10 minutes it is a gritty detective story, the next 15 minutes lapses into a tragic melodramatic romance straight out of some soap opera which is followed by the next 10 minutes of the one of the funniest fight scenes reminiscent of some of the best fights between Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd of Looney Toons fame.

Originally i found this to be slightly disjointed a style. That was before i actually read the original Will Eisner comic reprinted by DC. Every 8 pages saw a totally new Spirit story. Like the movie, the original comic seemed just as disjointed. For example you can get 8 pages of the Spirit foiling a terrorist threat followed by 8 pages of his very racist-ly portrayed friend “Ebony White” starting a matchmaking service with some hilarious results, then another 8 pages about some freak-of-nature creature hunting the Spirit. The stories are just THAT RANDOM in the original comic. Can we expect any less randomness from a movie based on that comic?

Even the acting, which many people claimed was “souless” and “machine-like”, was no worse than those cheap black and white soap operas. The acting, along with so many other aspects of the film, is also a jibe at the acting in movies of the 1940s and 50s.

Gabriel Macht’s Spirt is a perfect opposite of Samuel L Jackson’s villain role as The Octopus. I get the feeling the Macht’s wooden acting of his role was deliberately done to provide an ever clearer “black and white” separation of the hero and villain. Speaking of the Octopus, Samuel L Jackson hams it up to the max and plays his role with all the gusto of some of the best cartoon villains ever. I could be entertained just by watching only the scenes featuring the Octopus. He is that good and his every line had me trying to stifle what would have otherwise been roaring laughter. The over the top comedy was helped along by Louis Lombardi’s “-os”(Logos, pathos, sos, adios etc) named clone henchmen giving the 3 stooges a run for their money.

A few flaws fly about here and there. The first would be Frank Miller’s directing style and usage of the camera. He works a camera like how he draws a comic panel. It just cuts from scene to scene like how the eye would move from panel to panel. Very bland and uninteresting. The next would be the production design and the look of this film. So many people have praised the digital backgrounds and the dark stylized atmosphere. Is there anyone else besides me who felt that Frank Miller was just being extremely lazy and basically re-used what he learned from Robert Rodriguez’s digital set designs on Sin city and did not bother to come up with something that was his own? Personally i felt that this film would have benefited from a more lighthearted look to go with its “feel”. Something more like the Wachowski brothers’ Speed Racer.

The Spirit is not a film that people would be impressed by, neither is it one that has mass appeal. And thanks to the very misleading promotional material, people who watch this thinking that it was the next Sin City or 300 or Dark Knight would be sorely disappointed. However i can see “The Spirit” becoming a cult classic maybe 10 years down the road, readily sought after by curious fanboys.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 43 min (103 min)
Budget 60000000
Revenue 39031337
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Action, Crime, Fantasy
Director Frank Miller
Writer Frank Miller, Will Eisner
Actors Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson
Country United States
Awards 4 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Panavision Genesis HD Camera, Panavision Primo Lenses, Phantom HD Camera, Panavision Primo Lenses
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 2,808 m (Sweden), 2,826 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format Video (HDTV)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), HDCAM SR (1080p/24) (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic) (Kodak Vision 2383), D-Cinema