The Spirit (2008)

Release date: 2008-12-25
Country: USA
Language: English|French
Director: Frank Miller
Production Co: Lionsgate, Dark Lot Entertainment, MWM Studios
Genre: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Thriller
Rating: 4.8/10
Length: 1h 43min

Storyline

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 Keywords

pants falling down, femme fatale, masked superhero, nazi, police commissioner, policewoman, samurai, female star appears nude, cigarette smoking, coffin, coroner, corpse, death, diamond, electrocution, exploding body, falling down stairs, falling through a window, card game, bullet proof vest

Short Review

The Spirit isn't so much the female characters or the cleavage shots, but the fact that they're entirely deployed in the service of a dumb, juvenile fantasy of malehood.