An average movie

Even though the ratings were pretty weak, I still wanted to check this one out. I mean, come on, the material was actually pretty interesting. Indeed, here you have a cool super-hero , a cool moody poster, a cool lead actor... Wait a minute... Let me see, who is the lead actor...Michael Jai White... Who the f*ck is that ? Ah yeah! I know, he got killed by the Joker in the Dark Knight!! What a performance ! Sorry, I'm just being ironic here... Anyway, Michael (or is it Michael Jai?) didn't have enough star power to pull this movie towards a sequel... To be honest, I'm pretty harsh with Michael Jai White since he was not that bad after all. I was really surprised that Roger Ebert actually liked this movie a lot, above all, because he thought it looked really awesome. I'm sorry, with all due respect, except for a few things like Spawn's costume, it actually looked pretty awful. Furthermore, the acting was pretty abysmal as well, especially Martin Sheen gave one of his worst performances. Concerning John Leguizamo, damned, that clown was annoying but, I guess he was supposed to be annoying. Still, like I said before, even though the end-result was really weak, there was something quite appealing about the main character, it's just too bad he didn't get a better movie (apparently, Jamie Foxx is trying to launch a reboot so who knows?). To conclude, I think I'm being pretty generous with my rating, it is pretty much one of those misguided super-hero flicks they made in the 90's and I don't think it is really worth a look.

5/10