The film follows the rookie cop Denny Colt who is brutally killed and somehow brought back to life under the alias of The Spirit. With the newly acquired supernatural power, The Spirit is assigned to keep the city in peace, especially when The Octopus appears and plans to wipe out the entire city to gain immortality.
1968, Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
28 March 1971, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
28 August 1995, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
21 December 1953, Red Bank, New Jersey, USA
12 April 1947, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1947, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2 January 1976, Seville, Seville, Andalucía, Spain
26 April 1978, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
17 January 1966, Paraguay
June 20, 1981
28 November 1986, Montgomery, Alabama, USA
23 April 1979, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
June 21, 1978 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
17 December 1974, Tampa, Florida, USA
September 29, 2012
Frank Miller will undoubtedly make a movie worth watching one day, but it isn't The Spirit.
December 29, 2008
I thought it was sort of cool and corny simultaneously.
December 29, 2008
Someone get this man a decent script.
January 05, 2009
Every once in a while a genuine turkey escapes the coop, bereft of charm or wit, utterly lacking in technical prowess, integrity or intelligence. 'The Spirit' is such a film.
December 29, 2008
Denny Colt might have come back from the dead, but The Spirit stays cold on the slab.
June 02, 2010
A blissfully coked-out-of-its-mind spit-take on Eisner and the modern world of superhero cinema, The Spirit is wet bag of hot breath.
August 26, 2009
If Frank Miller is aiming for camp, he's playing cricket with a sledgehammer
September 24, 2010
I guess a movie this brassy, sumptuous, and unafraid of what-the-hell effects, gags and visuals isn't enough for a lot of people. I don't really know why.
April 01, 2011
The Spirit feels like an extended trip through Frank Miller's personal fantasyland, and it's easy to guess how interesting a film made for an audience of one is going to be to anyone else.
December 29, 2008
What is most striking about The Spirit is how little pleasure it affords, in spite of its efforts to by sly, sexy, heartfelt and clever all at once.
April 13, 2017
If Will Eisner's comic and legacy was a flag, Miller would be that person stomping it in to the ground and lighting it on fire.
