Surrounding him at every turn are ELLEN DOLAN (Sarah Paulson), the whip-smart girl-next-door SILKEN FLOSS (Scarlett Johansson), a punk secretary and frigid vixen PLASTER OF PARIS (Paz Vega), a murderous French nightclub dancer LORELEI (Jaime King), a phantom siren and MORGENSTERN (Stana Katic), a sexy young cop. The Spirit tracks this cold-hearted killer from Central City’s rundown warehouses, to the damp catacombs, to the windswept waterfront … all the while facing a bevy of beautiful women who either want to seduce, love or kill our masked crusader. Jackson) has a different mission: he’s going to wipe out Spirit’s beloved city as he pursues his own version of immortality. It is the story of a former rookie cop who returns mysteriously from the dead as the SPIRIT (Gabriel Macht) to fight crime from the shadows of Central City. That they’re a diverse trio is a thoughtful bonus, but it would have been great to see these actresses in a smarter girl-power quest.Adapted from the legendary comic strip, THE SPIRIT is a classic action-adventure-romance told by genre-twister FRANK MILLER (creator of 300 and SIN CITY).
(You know he’s a bad guy because he wears a goatee and is voiced by Walton Goggins.) But they also have a lot of fun along the way, whether it’s singing a silly song as they ride through the hills or giggling by the campfire as they roast marshmallows. Yes, their main purpose here is to stop a dastardly horse wrangler from stealing Spirit and his pals. While that connection is pretty basic in its heart-warming nature-she feeds him apples, he lets her get near him-the bond Lucky shares with the two new friends she makes in town provides an actual spark to “Spirit Untamed.” Trick rider Pru (Martin) and jokey songstress Abigail (Grace) teach her the basics of horsewomanship, and the three make a lively group. ( Kristin Hahn, Katherine Nolfi, and Aury Wallington wrote the script). Spirit’s fierce and wily personality is an example of the banal anthropomorphizing at play throughout director Elaine Bogan and co-director Ennio Torresan’s film. But her dad doesn’t want her riding any horse-especially such a rambunctious one-given that Lucky’s mom, Milagro, died in a riding accident. Several characters helpfully comment on the fact that the horse has a lot of Spirit, hence the name. While their relationship is understandably strained at first, Lucky takes quickly to a wild mustang, whom she calls Spirit. (Imagining Moore standing in a recording booth, yelping out whoops and grunts into a microphone, is extremely depressing.)īut during this particular Summer That Changed Everything, Lucky travels west with her aunt to visit her estranged father, Jim (Gyllenhaal), in the small town where she was born. Much tripping and smacking is in store throughout, mostly involving Cora. Our earliest indication of the wacky slapstick that constitutes the film’s primary source of comedy is a crazy chase in which a squirrel ruins Lucky’s wealthy grandfather’s announcement that he’s running for governor.
She’s a city girl who’s been living with her Aunt Cora (Moore) since the death of her mother, a celebrated stunt rider, a decade earlier.
This sorta-sequel, sorta-reboot draws inspiration, such as it is, from the 2002 film “ Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron” as well as from the Netflix series “Spirit Riding Free.” Merced, star of the surprisingly hilarious live-action “ Dora and the Lost City of Gold,” lends her voice to the plucky, tween character of Lucky Prescott, whose given name is Fortuna.