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Summary: As good as Hellboy
Review: I like it its just that why would a little fat clown (Violater) turn into a giant beast? But the SFX are cool. I just think it would be cool if there were bigger explosions. It sucked that they didn't make another one.
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Summary: An overdose of style over substance...
Review: "Spawn" is not a great film. At best, it's average. But it did help to pave the way for new superhero movies like "Spider-Man" and "Daredevil." With its neat-o special effects and really fast pace, this film based on Todd McFarlane's graphic novels (comic books) would be a great movie had the bad guy (Martin Sheen) not been so darn wimpy. Spawn could have seriously kicked some ... had he not been busy crying over losing his wife to his best friend. But the special effects are amazing, and I suppose that's what this film is all about: special effects. Well, there are tons here, ranging from Spawn himself to the fiery pits of Hell, to Satan himself. John Leguizemo is mostly funny as Clown, another of Spawn's nemeses. "Spawn" was definitely one of the better superhero movies of the nineties, but there weren't many good superhero movies in the nineties to begin with, so I don't know if that's a complement or not. See it if you must, but avoid it if you can.
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Summary: Not as bad as everyone says it is...
Review: "Spawn" is one of those comic-book movies that you hate to enjoy because it is cheesy and poorly written. But you have to admit in the end that it was pretty fun.Al Simmons is a professional government assassin. He is one of the best that the agency has. But when he decides to quit, his boss won't let him go that easily. He sets him up on one last mission before he goes. But the mission turns into a set-up from the boss and Simmons is brutally killed and summoned to hell. In hell, he meets with satan and his army. Satan tells Simmons that if he goes back to earth to kill his boss, he will let him be with his wife again. Of course Simmons accepts the mission and is followed by the evil Clown. But Simmons is then encountered by a religious man who knows that Simmons can use his power for good instead of evil. Through the movie, he mentors and helps Simmons control his powers and use them to turn against satan and Clown and still seek revenge and set everything right. "Spawn" was a decent comic-movie. Could have been a lot better, but what it turned out to be was surprisingly good. The action scenes were definatly well done and the special effects were also very good. If you are just looking for an hour and half to waste with a half-decent fun movie, Spawn is definatly a good pick. But if you are someone who acts like a movie critic and analyzes every flaw within a movie, this is not for you. "Spawn" runs for about 90 minutes. It was originally rated PG-13 but was changed to an R rating when it came to video. It is rated R for strong violence, some strong language, and brief crude humor.
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Summary: Should have been the best comic book movie ever made...
Review: ...but instead the movie version of Spawn is nothing but a disappointment. The special effects and makeup are great, as is John Leguizamo as Clown, but there is a lot of overacting and the storyline is boggled and shameful for something out of the Spawn universe. It gets two stars for special effects/makeup, and John Leguizamo, other than that, it goes right down the crapper.
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Summary: All the Special Effects in the World Can't Save This Bomb
Review: A lot of people seem to think that good special effects make for a good movie. Those people are wrong. Without a solid script and an intriguing storyline, no movie can be saved by cool visual effects. This movie has only one memorable moment, when the maniacal, little clown turns into a cheerleader and does some goofy cheers. That was actually hysterical. The rest of this film was hysterically bad. Martin Sheen must be experiencing the lowest low of his career. To think that the same guy who had the lead in "Apocalypse Now," a classic about the Vietnam War, would appear in this piece of trash is more frightening than anything. It doesn't say much for the enduring quality of an actor's career, no matter what great films he or she has starred in. Anyway, Spawn is awful, but might be worth seeing just for the joy of watching a really horrendous film.
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Summary: A Decent Movie
Review: A simple plot and lots of special effects. The movie could have been better. The story is a bit boring and fake but will keep you entertained. The movie lacks the abilities of Spawn. It should have shown more about him and his costume, and it would have been better with his mask on more often instead of that burnt face. It will keep you entertained but, you will probaly not want to see it again.
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Summary: Amazingly
Review: Absolutely the worst film I have ever seen at a cinema, this opened in the UK a week after 'Batman and Robin' and damaged my faith in motion pictures irrevocably. Looking back, the only good thing I can remember is the opening credits sequence, and then only for the interesting collaboration of Orbital and Metallica. Apart from that, and an attractive visual style, this film is awful, and I hate it in so many ways. As a translation of the comic book, it's terrible, missing the atmosphere completely. It's closer to the dreadful Marvel adaptations ('The Punisher', 'Swamp Thing' and so on), it pulls its punches, the script is awful, and it doesn't even have a single decent action sequence. The acting is uniformly dreadful, you feel sorry for poor old Martin Sheen, the effects are cheap-looking and very, very bad (the final computer-generated monster seems to use a model from 'Men in Black', whilst the evocation of Satan and Hell will have you laughing out loud - it looks worse than the average computer game FMV intro sequence) and I'm just going to stop here before I start ranting about this. I seriously considered walking out, although I couldn't as there were people in the way. Buy several copies of this DVD, and then burn them. You'll be happier, believe me. Compare this with 'Blade' for how it should be done - on a similarly low budget, and a similar mileu 'Blade' is fantastic, whereas 'Spawn' is awful.
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Summary: "You've been violated little girlie man!"
Review: Al Simmons is killed by his boss and goes to hell. He comes back to Earth to take revenge on Wynn and to see Wanda again. With him is the hardly recognizable John Leugiazamo (I know I misspelled that) as a clown from hell. Leugiazamo has the best lines in the movie in my view. Al is soon called "Spawn" by the clown.
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Summary: A good comic-book movie
Review: Al Simmons was a a good father an husband. He was also a hit-man and saboteur for a self-serving megalomaniac, and for whatever power lay behind that maniac. As his jobs got more vicious and careless of bystanders, he wanted out. "Out," he learned, meant dead, burned to death.
That really made him mad.
He is reincarnated as an agent of Hell, renamed "Spawn". After that, there is everything you would want in a comic book adaptation. He has a soft side for his former family, thirst for revenge, mysterious mentor, super powers he has not learned to control, an incredibly annoying liaison agent from the devil, and Martin Sheen as an over-the-top bad guy. And a small boy as a sidekick. Does that complete the checklist?
Even though the nominal plot is a battle between heven and hell, fought on earth, there are no real religious overtones here (but you're free to read them in if you want). It's just wild characters, lots of fights, and passable effects. On the whole, a pretty good way to kill an evening.
//wiredweird
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Summary: Expensive special effects can't hide "cheap" storyline.
Review: Although no longer an avid reader of the Spawn comic book this reader could tell that the movie was a big departure from the comic storyline to cover the break-up with one-time best pals Rob Liefeld and Todd McFarlane. The substitution of "Chapel" with "Priest" as Al Simmons murderer is lame and so unbelievable that it turns off most Spawn readers. For a man so insistent on doing things his own way it's sad to see that McFarlane buckled under the pressure to change his story to suit Hollywoods demands. Further proof of this is evidenced by changing one of the main characters from black to white. The touting of the movie as being the "special effects" movie of the year reveals that this may be the only thing going for the movie. However, the scenes of Malebogia in hell were very cheesy and so computer-animated looking that you'd think it belonged in Disney's "Toy Story" which was an infinitely more entertaining movie. The movie is most prophetic in revealing the nature of McFarlane in his cameo role. In short the movie is a "bum!" People began walking out of the movie half-way through while the show manager ushered them to a free showing of "Jerry McGuire." Being a former Spawn fan I did stay for the duration to see the final credits. I was impressed that McFarlane got Crystal Method to play the theme music although it was too loud and not up their usual standards. This movie did little for Michael Jaleel White's career except maybe guarantee him the starring role in Spawn II which I'm afraid will suffer the same curse as Rocky V, that being one Spawn movie too many. Oh well, maybe this time McFarlane can get it right and have his cameo-character get his heart ripped out by the Violator--just like he ripped the heart out of this movie. END
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