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The Spirit
2008
· Movie
· 103 min
F
MEANRANK
42/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5736
- IMDb #5654
- Rotten Tomatoes #5041
- Metacritic #4868
- Letterboxd #5662
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5312
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #5029
- Metacritic Critics #4778
- Metacritic Audience #4687
- Kinopoisk #5264
- AlloCiné #5244
- Trakt #5146
Every rating
14–58
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 14, highest is Google on 58. Critics average 22, everyone else 47.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A former policeman returns from the dead as a masked crimefighter known as The Spirit, who protects Central City. His main adversary is his old nemesis, The Octopus, who is determined to achieve immortality. The Spirit must also navigate his complicated relationships with several alluring women, each with their own connection to his past and present.
Details
- Director
- Frank Miller
- Writer
- Frank Miller
- Based on
- Spirit
- Studio
- Lionsgate, Dark Lot Entertainment, Continental Entertainment Group (CEG), OddLot Entertainment
- Released
- 25 December 2008
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $60.0M
- Box office
- $39.2M
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