bentheimpaler
In many ways, this film is as tragic as Spawn's own backstory.
As mentioned above, the actors are beautifully suited to their roles. Particularly Michael Jai White and John Leguizamo in the leading roles. Everyone breathes a real life into one of the greatest comic series ever written.The story, on the other hand, is unbecomingly light-hearted for Spawn. Perhaps they were worried about the movie being to broody, but if that was the case, they grossly overcompensated. Some of the most emotionally pivotal scene of the opening comic issues are instead played for laughs here. It isn't Joel Schumacher's Spawn, by any means. But the out-of-place gags can take you out of the story when the horrid CGI doesn't. The make-up, costumes and practical effects are honestly breathtaking, but that and the strength of the actors alternates from helping you forget that you're watching the generic cola of Spawn, and highlighting all that now seems even weaker by comparison. In short, it's a lukewarm movie at best. With good points and bad in equal measure. I can't recommend it as such, but it is an interesting study in "so close, and yet so far".
cwenditz-597-359521
Watching this movie on NETFLIX. The dialog has been changed, several words have been cut out. Some politically correct fat ass has destroyed a movie. This is wrong. Having the dialog edited takes away from the movie, I have watched an original version released and purchased from Walmart and can definitely someone has edited the dialog. To do this to any movie alters it in a bad way.
adonis98-743-186503
An elite mercenary is killed, but comes back from Hell as a reluctant soldier of the Devil. Spawn (1997) is directed by Mark A.Z. Dippé and stars John Leguizamo, Michael Jai White and Martin Sheen and here is my problem with this film if it had less of the Clown played by Leguizamo and more of Al Simmons / Spawn played by Michael Jai White i would have given the film a 10 but don't get me wrong it's still a pretty awesome movie the costume is sick and 100% faithful to the original material, the action was handled pretty well and i loved those fight sequences with Spawn and the Violator although they have changed his origins because if i remember correctly he was a Cop and not an Elite Mercenary but that's fine i loved those shots with him walking away from the fire behind and all this carnage or even the last shot which kinda reminded of Daredevil and even the video-game for Playstation 2. Except the Clown what i didn't like also was some of the effects were really awful i mean like very awful every time the film cut and went straight to Hell you saw around the whole environment looking like a bad green screen and once The Devil Malebolgia appeared the effects went even more wrong as far as costumes tho and actual special effects the film was a genius it's not one of the best from that time but i gotta handle it to them they tried so hard and for a first time try it wasn't that bad and i honestly hope that one day Spawn will return to the big screen better than ever and there are many great actors out there that could take the role like Chiwetel Ejiofor or even Djimon Hounsou there are endless choices of great actors for the role of Simmons A.k.a Spawn and i heard that Todd McFarlane has actually wrote a script so we just have to wait and see what it's going to happen and by the way blink and you will miss it Todd McFarlane himself the creator of Spawn has a cameo in the film as a Hobo. Anyways guys in the end Spawn is not a Masterpiece but for the time it was created and released in Theaters it's still a pretty cool film 8/10 for me.
Neil Welch
Covert operative Al Simmons is killed in action, having been set up, and the next thing he knows is he is a kind of supernatural bum, living in an alley with hoboes having been kind of reincarnated as a super-powered burns victim with a groovy cloak, and a mission to protect his widow (who has moved on) and daughter, and combat a couple of nasty demon-y things, one of whom is a short fat foul-mouthed clown.Drawn from Todd McFarlane's comic, Spawn comes very early in the current cycle of super-hero movies, and is actually quite good considering how good they have become since. Makeup and CGI are good, the story - Spawn's origin story - is satisfactory, and the performances (with the exception of Michael Jai White who is a little lightweight) are solid.Could be better, judged by current standards, but not bad.
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