The Spirit

All the big names and an interesting visual quality still don’t make The Spirit worth watching.

rating: D
stars: Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes, and Jamie King
genre: action
year released: 2008

The film is about a cop who comes back from the dead and calls himself the Spirit (Gabriel Macht). He is the protector for Central City and is in a war against his enemy Octopus (Samuel L. Jackson). The Spirit is trying to stop Octopus and his assistant Silken Floss (Scarlett Johansson) from gaining immortality and wiping out the city. Throughout the film the Spirit chases Octopus throughout the city having multiple battles. Along the way he meets up with his childhood love Sand Saref (Eva Mendes) who is somehow connected into the story. The story just ends after a battle without really giving much closure to the film.

I just saw this movie the other day and went into it expecting it to be pretty bad, and sure enough it was. It was not just bad it was horrible. The story was not comprehensible, the characters had terrible corny lines and they never developed. I would like to try to pick out a few good things that happened in the film except all I can think of is that Eva Mendes was in it. To me the film felt like an incredibly over dramatic play. I have yet to see a Samuel L. Jackson film that I enjoyed. If you could not tell already I would not recommend wasting your time to watch this film.