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17 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt 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.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanSpawn doesn't make a lot of sense, but the imagery whooshes by in glitzy psychedelic torrents.
- 50ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliUnfortunately, 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.
- 50Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittThe adventure is vulgar and violent, although the special effects are impressive.
- 40Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovIt's all one big blur: sound, fury, and Martin Sheen devouring scenery as if it were going out of style (and in Spawn, it's definitely not).
- 25San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleAlmost every moment has flashes and explosions and a pulsing, relentless soundtrack. It's like being trapped inside a video game.
- 25San Francisco ExaminerWalter AddiegoSan Francisco ExaminerWalter AddiegoOtherwise, the movie, which borrows from a dozen pop sources and improves on none of them, is pretty much a washout.
- 20The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenBut 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.
- 10Chicago ReaderLisa AlspectorChicago ReaderLisa AlspectorThis hopelessly redundant action gross-out aspires to a form of hip vacuousness--and may achieve it.
- 0SalonSalonThe 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.