The Phantom
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Movie Reviews of The Phantom
Movie Review: Nifty live-action comicbook
Summary: 3 Stars
This is the type of DVD that works best if you watch it on a rainy Saturday morning. I missed "Phantom" when it was released theatrically many years ago and discovered it on DVD. This is an old-fashioned comicstrip/movie serial sort of film that's perhaps too straightforward for most tastes. There's no irony or winking references here, which sets it apart from most other superhero movies. I liked it, but didn't love it, and I can fully understand if it's not to everyone's taste. I suggest you rent it, watch it on a gloomy weekend and see if it doesn't make you feel like a kid again if only for a few minutes.Movie Review: Great Comic adventure
Summary: 4 Stars
The Phantom is quite good and the cast is great too. The Phantom was an enjoyable facinating comic, and any fans of the comic book will find no reason not to watch the feature-length movie. This movie is a great action ride adventure and i'm sure you'll love the story. Same charecters and no flaws, this movie is perfect. 8.5/10.Movie Review: Fun Fast Phantom Fists of Fury
Summary: 4 Stars
When looking for a fun action film one can certainly do far worse than The Phantom, based upon the newspaper strip of the same name. Billy Zane plays the title role with Treat Williams as the main villain.The plot revolves around a quest to find three sacred, and powerful, skulls that together form a powerful weapon. To prevent the skulls from falling into the wrong hands the Phantom must travel to New York in his disguise as Mr. Walker (a play on The-Ghost-Who-Walks).
This is an excellent movie for swashbuckling fans with plenty of action and derring-do. There is also the nice touch that the women are not helpless as we so often see in movies. There are also little touches brought in from other movies and comic strips (but I'll let you see it to figure them out). Classic imagery is combined with good action and good lines to make the Phantom a movie well worth seeing.
Movie Review: Could be better
Summary: 4 Stars
Along with "The Shadow", "The Phantom" is a lavish showcase of Art Deco settings and opulent epoch recreation. It's such a shame that the screenplay cannot be up to the standard set by the painstaking and meticulous production, soign? to the tiniest details. The film starts off fine, with the introduction of the Phantom's story and his family's century-long rift with an evil-doing sect of buccaneers, which by the 1930s seeks to conquer a world then seething with dictators. The rhythm is fast-paced but the film's resolution is wishy-washy and perfunctory. The Phantom himself is very meek and for all his brawn, he lacks the crafty self-assertiveness of the Shadow or Indiana Jones, two characters this film harks back to. The four stars count only for the extraordinary effort of epoch recreation. The story itself is hardly worth two.Movie Review: A Good-Looking if Otherwise Mediocre Movie
Summary: 3 Stars
While the basic look of Simon Wincer's version of "The Phantom" is right, the film suffers from a sense of "liteness" that retards it from finding its legs as a swashbuckling adventure. The often-creepy Billy Zane turns in a decent "aw shucks" performance as The Phantom, the latest successor to a long line of superheroes who've donned a purple costume and black mask to serve justice. In this version, he's up against-predictably-a megalomaniacal millionaire (Treat Wiliams) who is bent on acquiring three skulls that will give him supernatural powers. Williams provides some laughs with his perennially excited villainy-he's like an evil, hyperactive six-year-old on metamphetamines-and the luscious Catherine Zeta-Jones does her turn as the dark-haired spideress that keeps butting heads with The Phantom's girl (a plucky if pouty Kristy Swanson). The story is Indiana Jones meets Batman, right down to caves, jungles, hidden fortresses, and pirates, with a little Jules Verne thrown in for spice (there's a cool mini-submarine that just screams "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"). But even with the addition of the delightfully craggy Patrick McGoohan as an earlier Phantom, the films seems to lag, in part because it seems so derivative. And though it's set in the 1930s and imitates serials of the era, its playing to ugly stereotypes gets tiresome-the blonde being the "good girl" and the brunette the "bad girl," the Yellow Horde seeking to enslave the world, Italians as mobsters willing to double-cross their own brothers, etc. Sure, there are lots of Americans who actually believe such hoo-ha, but that doesn't make it worth putting in a film that seems aimed at impressionable kids.