Spawn . Tucson Weekly . 08-11-97

Spawn

DIRECTED BY: Mark Dippé

REVIEWED: 08-11-97

A film based on Todd McFarlane's big, dumb comic book is (surprise!) a big, dumb comic-book movie. The plot involves a government agent (Michael Jai White) who gets double-crossed by his boss (Martin Sheen) and sent to hell, where Satan makes a deal with him: He can return to earth only if he leads the minions of hell against the gates of heaven. Well, whatever. The effects (other than the computer animated representation of Satan, who looks like the warrior princess from the first Mortal Kombat game) are pretty; the sets at times more than perfunctory; the acting, atrocious across the board (with the exception of John Leguizamo, who at least enjoys himself as an evil demon clown). But it's the script that deserves the full brunt of criticism: Dull, clunky and uninspired, it drags the characters around so predictably and without effect that it'll leave even hardcore Spawn-ites unenthused. Avoid this shrieking mess at all costs. Summer, please be over soon.

--Marchant

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