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06/24/06
Spawn (1997)
21 %
Reviews Counted: 33 Fresh: 7 Rotten:26 Average Rating: 4.2/10
Consensus:
Spawn is an overbearing, over-violent film that adds little to the comic book adaptation genre.
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Synopsis: The ambitious, visually extravagant big-screen adaptation of comic artist Todd McFarlane's popular eponymous Gothic serial, helmed by first-timer Dippe (formerly of Industrial Light & Magic). After burning to death in the munitions factory he was commanded to destroy, a reluctant CIA... [More]
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: Michael Jai White, John Leguizamo, Martin Sheen, Theresa Randle, Nicol Williamson
Director: Mark Dippé
Story: Todd McFarlane, Alan McElroy, Mark Dippé
Screenwriter: Alan McElroy
Composer: Graeme Revell
Producer: Alan C. Blomquist, Adrianna A.J. Cohen, Terry Fitzgerald, Clint Goldman, Todd McFarlane, Brian Witten
Story: Todd McFarlane, Alan McElroy, Mark Dippé
Screenwriter: Alan McElroy
Composer: Graeme Revell
Producer: Alan C. Blomquist, Adrianna A.J. Cohen, Terry Fitzgerald, Clint Goldman, Todd McFarlane, Brian Witten
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01/15/08
This hopelessly redundant action gross-out aspires to a form of hip vacuousness -- and may achieve it.
04/26/07
A would-be cult film carefully constructed from parts of other cult films.
10/07/04
Spawn is a far from perfect movie, but interesting enough to make me look forward to the inevitable sequel.
10/15/02
... the filmmakers filled their film with tons of FX, leaving little place to action scenes.
09/10/02
The movie belongs to Jai White, whose eyes, voice and movements lock the audience into his heart and struggle.
06/05/02
The nonsensical screenplay can barely stand-up to the hellzapoppin,' Beelzebubbin' effects mustered by first-time director Mark Dippe.
01/22/02
The digital effects in Spawn are numbingly numerous -- the film seems almost like an animated feature with some human stars or a virtual reality arcade game.
01/01/00
As a comic book, Spawn may be first rate, but, as a movie, it's a retread.
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