Spawn: Critic Reviews

68%
MovieWeb:   2 reviews
20%
RottenTomatoes:   40 reviews
  • Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)
    59
    The film gives you the pleasurably junky sensation of living inside an apocalyptic videogame.
    Full Review » 2 years ago
  • Stephen Holden New York Times (Top Critic)
    40
    ... an incoherent blitz of noise, chintzy special effects and bargain-basement allegory.
    Full Review » 12 years ago
  • Andy Seiler USA Today (Top Critic)
    38
    There's no suspense, no emotional involvement with the characters, and the cynical, sophomoric storytelling is confusing.
    Full Review » 12 years ago
  • Rita Kempley Washington Post (Top Critic)
    The nonsensical screenplay can barely stand-up to the hellzapoppin,' Beelzebubbin' effects mustered by first-time director Mark Dippe.
    Full Review » 10 years ago
  • Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)
    88
    As a visual experience, Spawn is unforgettable.
    Full Review » 12 years ago
  • Lisa Alspector Chicago Reader (Top Critic)
    This hopelessly redundant action gross-out aspires to a form of hip vacuousness -- and may achieve it.
    Full Review » 5 years ago
  • Todd McCarthy Variety (Top Critic)
    A moodily malevolent, anything-goes revenge fantasy that relies more upon special visual and digitally animated effects for its intended appeal than any comics-derived sci-fier to date.
    Full Review » 3 years ago
  • James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)
    50
    As a comic book, Spawn may be first rate, but, as a movie, it's a retread.
    Full Review » 12 years ago
  • Maitland McDonagh TV Guide's Movie Guide
    50
    Most of the rest of the cast suffocates beneath mountains of special-effects makeup.
    Full Review » 2 years ago
  • Angie Errigo Empire Magazine
    20
    It's simply a parade of toys and tricks, without a jot of playfulness, knowing humour or campery to endear itself.
    Full Review » 2 years ago
  • Film4
    What it doesn't have is much of a plot.
    Full Review » 2 years ago
  • Garth Franklin Dark Horizons
    The movie definitely lost something in the translation.
    Full Review » 4 years ago
  • Chuck O'Leary FulvueDrive-in.com
    20
    Full Review » 5 years ago
  • Time Out
    Dippe, an old SFX hand, needs to think about how to tell a story.
    Full Review » 6 years ago
  • Robin Clifford Reeling Reviews
    59
    Full Review » 7 years ago
  • Jeffrey Westhoff Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
    50
    A would-be cult film carefully constructed from parts of other cult films.
    Full Review » 8 years ago
  • Spence D. IGN Movies
    40
    Full Review » 8 years ago
  • Dragan Antulov rec.arts.movies.reviews
    30
    Annoying.
    Full Review » 8 years ago
  • Robert Roten Laramie Movie Scope
    60
    Full Review » 9 years ago
  • Fred Topel About.com
    0
    An ugly, ugly film that makes no sense.
    Full Review » 9 years ago
  • Mark Palermo Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
    40
    Full Review » 9 years ago
  • Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
    34
    Great literature hardly ever translates to the screen ...
    Full Review » 10 years ago
  • Margaret A. McGurk Cincinnati Enquirer
    63
    Spawn is a far from perfect movie, but interesting enough to make me look forward to the inevitable sequel.
    Full Review » 10 years ago
  • Kevin N. Laforest Montreal Film Journal
    63
    ... the filmmakers filled their film with tons of FX, leaving little place to action scenes.
    Full Review » 10 years ago
  • Karen Achenbach Boxoffice Magazine
    60
    The movie belongs to Jai White, whose eyes, voice and movements lock the audience into his heart and struggle.
    Full Review » 10 years ago
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