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24 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63USA TodayClaudia PuigUSA TodayClaudia PuigThe Spirit is uneven, but its campy adventure provides some amusing, escapist fun.
- 50ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThere are good things to be said about The Spirit, but not enough of them to outweigh the bad.
- 50Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanAs the vamps, Eva Mendes and Scarlett Johansson might be posing for a fashion spread with just one note to play -- gorgeous high-bitch mockery.
- 38New York PostKyle SmithNew York PostKyle SmithWith its starkly contrasted visuals (fierce blacks, Clorox whites, a dash of unholy crimson), The Spirit may resemble a comic book more than any live-action film yet made, but it makes "Max Payne" look like a gleaming jewel of storytelling by comparison.
- 38Boston GlobeTy BurrBoston GlobeTy BurrThe movie's cleverest idea is to give the Octopus identical clone henchmen with names like Phobos, Logos, and Huevos, all played by Louis Lombardi with a marvelous fat-boy idiot grin.
- 30VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangPlunges into a watery grave early on and spends roughly the next 100 minutes gasping for air.
- 25Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe Spirit is mannered to the point of madness. There is not a trace of human emotion in it. To call the characters cardboard is to insult a useful packing material.
- 25Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsOnly Sarah Paulson, as the Spirit's doctor and sometime lover, seems to be in there playing the scenes as if she were a human being in a comic book superhero scenario, as opposed to a comic book character stuck in a cruddy movie.
- 20The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttIt is truly a mess.
- 20New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanMiller clearly wanted to make an impression, and that he does. Maybe it's better to be remembered for one of the worst movies of the year than forgotten for a mediocre one.