'SPIRIT' IS COMIC

Miller Pic Falters, Flails in Muted Duotone

Splotchy colors and swooping camera make for a few worthy frames, but “The Spirit” is plenty of art short of becoming spiritual. Helmer/scribe Frank Miller drags the dated Will Eisner comic of the same name through several layers of a cinematic hell before finally allowing it to expire. As Death insinuates to the title character in the opening frames, any moment would be a good time to give up the ghost. B.O. will be light, as auds flock to less convoluted fair.

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