Jeff Beck The Blu Spot Oct 7, 2025 3/5

Spawn may have a rather dark, morbid narrative, filled with over-the-top performances and ridiculously cheesy special effects, but taken altogether, it makes for a somewhat amusing & entertaining comic book outing.

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Rob Gonsalves Rob's Movie Vault Sep 1, 2022 F

If it’s meant to snare the uninitiated, I must say it failed to hook me.

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Mike Massie Gone With The Twins Sep 24, 2020 2/10

Unfortunately, as a product of the '90s, the film relies heavily on dated, primitive, terribly unconvincing computer graphics.

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Mark H. Harris Black Horror Movies Aug 8, 2020 1.8/5

I would say I feel bad for a cast that's clearly above this material, but at least they got paid for it; I ended up in the red.

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Barbara Shulgasser Common Sense Media Oct 3, 2017 1/5

Violent '90s apocalyptic horror tale is dreadful.

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Tim Brayton Antagony & Ecstasy Dec 6, 2016 4/10

Ends up feeling like every other mid-budget comic book movie from the second half of the 1990s, and that was a uniquely dispiriting moment for such things.

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Jay Boyar Orlando Sentinel May 6, 2016

This barely coherent hunk of junk is like a cheap horror film with only a suggestion of the grisliness that appeals to fans of cheap horror films.

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Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed Jul 12, 2012

Has aged about as well as a banana in the sweltering sun...

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John J. Puccio Movie Metropolis Jul 8, 2012 4/10

As a movie, 'Spawn' can't make up its mind what it wants to be any more than its protagonist knows who he is or what he wants to be.

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Angie Errigo Empire Magazine Jul 12, 2010 1/5

It's simply a parade of toys and tricks, without a jot of playfulness, knowing humour or campery to endear itself.

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Maitland McDonagh TV Guide Jul 12, 2010 2/4

Most of the rest of the cast suffocates beneath mountains of special-effects makeup.

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly Jul 6, 2010 B-

The film gives you the pleasurably junky sensation of living inside an apocalyptic videogame.

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Todd McCarthy Variety Mar 26, 2009

A moodily malevolent, anything-goes revenge fantasy that relies more upon special visual and digitally animated effects for its intended appeal than any comics-derived sci-fier to date.

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Garth Franklin Dark Horizons Jan 15, 2008

The movie definitely lost something in the translation.

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Chuck O'Leary FulvueDrive-in.com May 7, 2007 1/5

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Lisa Alspector Chicago Reader Apr 26, 2007

This hopelessly redundant action gross-out aspires to a form of hip vacuousness -- and may achieve it.

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Robin Clifford Reeling Reviews Apr 9, 2005 B-

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Jeffrey Westhoff Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) Oct 7, 2004 2/4

A would-be cult film carefully constructed from parts of other cult films.

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Spence D. IGN Jan 29, 2004 2/5

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Dragan Antulov rec.arts.movies.reviews Jan 13, 2004 3/10

Annoying.

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