Saw this last night, and it was pretty good. The plot didn't match my memory of Spirit comics from when I read them 20 years ago (I really wish the female lead was P'Gell). Eisner was a master of irony and subtlety. Not much here is subtle, which is probably the most ironic thing about the movie.
Every scene is over-stylized -- like Frank Miller's Sin City and 300 -- to the point of distraction. And Samuel L. Jackson is over the top the whole movie. Jackson does that well, and it is a comic book movie, so it fits in. But there's a scene when he and Scarlett Johansson are in Nazi garb that didn't click.
There are worse ways to spend 100 minutes. Just sit back and watch the pretty colors.
mt
Every scene is over-stylized -- like Frank Miller's Sin City and 300 -- to the point of distraction. And Samuel L. Jackson is over the top the whole movie. Jackson does that well, and it is a comic book movie, so it fits in. But there's a scene when he and Scarlett Johansson are in Nazi garb that didn't click.
There are worse ways to spend 100 minutes. Just sit back and watch the pretty colors.
mt
