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When I first saw the teaser trailer for Frank Miller’s ‘The Spirit’ a few months back, I didn’t think too much of it because, well, it was just a teaser. There wasn’t much in it besides a guy running around on the rooftops with voice over. With that said, it was apparent that this movie would ooze in visual qualities matching that of 300 or Sin City. The whole teaser was pretty much in black and white with only the guy’s tie being in colour - a vibrant red.

Now that the full trailer has been released, all I can say is I was blown away by the visual qualities! It’s not the same as either Sin City nor 300, it’s something that has evolved a bit…

Plot Summary

Adapted from the legendary comic book series created by Will Eisner, “The Spirit” is a classic action-adventure-romance written for the screen and directed by genre-twister Frank Miller (creator of “300″ and “Sin City”). It is the story of a former rookie cop who returns mysteriously from the dead as the Spirit (Gabriel Macht) to fight crime from the shadows of Central City. His arch-enemy, the Octopus (Samuel L. Jackson) has a different mission: he’s going to wipe out Spirit’s beloved city as he pursues his own version of immortality. The Spirit tracks this cold-hearted killer from Central City’s rundown warehouses, to the damp catacombs, to the windswept waterfront… all the while facing a bevy of beautiful women who either want to seduce, love or kill our masked crusader. Surrounding him at every turn are Ellen Dolan (Sarah Paulson), the whip-smart girl-next-door; Silken Floss (Scarlett Johansson), a punk secretary and frigid vixen; Plaster of Paris (Paz Vega), a murderous French nightclub dancer; Lorelei (Jaime King), a phantom siren; and Morgenstern (Stana Katic), a sexy young cop. Then of course, there’s Sand Saref (Eva Mendes), the jewel thief with dangerous curves. She’s the love of his life turned bad. Will he save her or will she kill him? In the vein of “Batman Begins” and “Sin City,” “The Spirit” takes us on a sinister, gut-wrenching ride with a hero who is born, murdered and born again.