Friday, April 12, 2013

The Phantom (1996)


The Phantom, descendent of a line of African heroes, travels to New York to thwart a criminal genius.

Playful mixture of superhero comic and jungle adventure, mildly entertaining.

Halliwell (no star): "A limp action movie featuring a dull super-hero, this is below-par Saturday matinee stuff."

Maltin **: "Lead-footed emulation of Saturday matinee serials, using Lee Falk's masked comic-strip hero ("the ghost who walks"), who starred in a bona fide serial in 1943...Well-meaning INDIANA JONES wannabe has no energy and offers large-scale stunts without knowing how to stage them!"


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