Movie Review #34 - Spawn
Jun. 4th, 2007 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catalyst2This movie really is a mixed bag - some parts are great and some are awful, with very little in the middle ground.
First check of the watch - about ten minutes in and then not again until it finished.
It is very obvious what money was spent on and what it was not spent on. Clearly nothing was spent on the script at all because it is a cliche-ridden deadweight from beginning to end. No-one is well served by it, not Spawn, not Wynn and not Cagliostro. Suffering worst from the script is The Clown. It is one of those crazy OTT parts that only works if the script is absolutely on the ball - and sadly this is way off so the Clown ends up being a ridiculously silly character rather than the menacing one that he could have been.
Clearly, most of the money went on CGI - Spawn's initial transformation is just genius, the swirling mass of his cape is great and the various transformations that Spawn undergoes are very well done. The Violator is generally well done too. The only time the CGI looks bad is in the Hell scenes and that's largely because they are just so unimaginative. So, Hell has lots of flames and stuff ...... and what's to care about that then?
And there is the inevitable Jossverse connection - Robia LaMorte plays a reporter here.
Overall, this looked good, tried really hard but fell very flat.
First check of the watch - about ten minutes in and then not again until it finished.
It is very obvious what money was spent on and what it was not spent on. Clearly nothing was spent on the script at all because it is a cliche-ridden deadweight from beginning to end. No-one is well served by it, not Spawn, not Wynn and not Cagliostro. Suffering worst from the script is The Clown. It is one of those crazy OTT parts that only works if the script is absolutely on the ball - and sadly this is way off so the Clown ends up being a ridiculously silly character rather than the menacing one that he could have been.
Clearly, most of the money went on CGI - Spawn's initial transformation is just genius, the swirling mass of his cape is great and the various transformations that Spawn undergoes are very well done. The Violator is generally well done too. The only time the CGI looks bad is in the Hell scenes and that's largely because they are just so unimaginative. So, Hell has lots of flames and stuff ...... and what's to care about that then?
And there is the inevitable Jossverse connection - Robia LaMorte plays a reporter here.
Overall, this looked good, tried really hard but fell very flat.
