Review – Spawn

Here’s another grim, violent movie based on a grim, violent comic book, a la The Crow (though nobody in this picture, including the once-great Martin Sheen, packs the potential of the late Brandon Lee). For a film that was heavily hyped on its special effects, a lot of the effects weren’t especially special. Some of the makeup was pretty good, particularly John Leguizamo as the killer clown (really? Leguizamo as a frantic, annoying character? go figure). But the stuff they did on computers was mediocre at best and at worst unworthy even of 64-bit video games. I suppose this is the sort of film that I would have absolutely loved back when I was 12 years old, which I guess means that it does a great job of catering to its target audience. See if desperate