It walks and talks like a big budget horror film, heavy on special effects and pitched at the teenage audience, and maybe that's how it will be received. But it's more impressive if you ignore the genre and just look at what's on the screen.Read Full Review »
The special effects are effective and aggressive, although one might occasionally confuse a divine vortex with a flushed toilet.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
Spawn doesn't make a lot of sense, but the imagery whooshes by in glitzy psychedelic torrents.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Unfortunately, where the movie falls apart is in the storyline. While Spawn fans may be delighted by this effort, the uninitiated may have a hard time getting beyond the fancy special effects and often-incoherent plot.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Andy Seiler
Shot by a special-effects superstar making his first stab at directing, Mark Dippe, the result is dizzying in its unreality, and the visual tricks are impressive. [01Aug1997 Pg.02.D]Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Rita Kempley
The nonsensical screenplay can barely stand-up to the hellzapoppin, Beelzebubbin effects mustered by first-time director Mark Dippe.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Stephen Holden
But after 15 minutes, this yellow-orange vision of spiraling circles of hell, snorting devils and demonic shapes continually morphing out of one another, begins to seem redundant and conceptually impoverished.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Laura Miller
The special effects look model-shop cheesy, as if they'd been created using a handful of action figures and MacPaint, and the rest of the picture has the flat visual finish and phoned-in performances of a TV movie.Read Full Review »
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