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Shadow
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4
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5.20
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| Starring |
Alec Baldwin  , Tim Curry, John Lone
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Directed by:
Russell Mulcahy
Written by:
David Koepp
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| Released: |
1994 |
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| Genre: |
ACTION
COMIC STRIP
ADVENTURE
COMEDY
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| Origin: |
US |
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| Colour: |
C |
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| Length: |
107 |
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A superhero (Alec Baldwin) tries to prevent a descendant of Genghis Khan (John Lone) from destroying New York. |
Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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| Another of those massive, splendidly art-directed, mega-buck disasters which makes one wonder whether anyone concerned bothered to read the screenplay. Russell Mulcahy applies his flashy, rock-video talent to yet another attempt to recycle a comic-strip hero into a dark anti-hero for the 80s. In attempting to be the new Batman, it is roughly as exciting as an old Vatman. The villains (Tim Curry, John Lone) are camp and singularly unfrightening. Ian McKellen and Penelope Ann Miller are wasted on cliched roles as The Scientific Genius and His Beautiful Daughter. As the hero, Alec Baldwin is hopelessly uncharismatic. He is laughable when attempting to be sophisticated, and would be well advised to lose some weight before stripping to his torso; there are times here when some special-effects wizard seems to have grafted his head on to the body of Bob Hoskins. | | ANTI | | A hollow production design showcase. | | | | (Variety, long after release) |
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