Action Packed!

The Spirit, the new comic-based film from legendary Frank Miller, just celebrated its premiere in Spain. Based on Will Eisner’s seminal comic strip from 1940, The Spirit is a former cop who’s come “back from the dead”, and now deals out justice vigilante style.

The film looks like it’s going to be in the style of Miller’s other projects, 300 and Sin City. It stars Gabriel Macht, who I’ve never heard of, but who has a pretty sweet name and enough notoriety to inspire a fan worship page. In the spirit of the comic (pun: intended), the film also features a bevy of buxom beauties. Guys, take your pick between Eva Mendes, Scarlett Johansson and Paz Vega.

Check out the trailer:

… and now, let’s agree that it features some of the worst dialogue you’ve ever heard. Making Samuel L. Jackson come off unthreatening is quite a feat, but … “I’m the Octopus. I’ve got eight of everything” has got to be the least menacing baddie one-liner in the history of comic flicks. Do you have eight… weaknesses?! Eight livers? Eight shattering regrets about the course of your career?

Of course, when The Spirit follows that up with his promise to “kill you all kinds of dead”, I figured perhaps he and The Octopus deserve each other. Maybe the Spirit could just kill him eight kinds of dead.

Man, I really want to believe that this film is going to be great, but my confidence is shaken…