The burnt-to-a-crisp and resurrected superhero from the Todd McFarlane comic books, and the HBO cartoon series, comes -- like a Batman out of Hell -- to live action, or at least partially live. His assorted powers -- his cape, his armor, his spikes, his chains -- and his shapeshifting enemies imprison much of the action in computer animation. The creative "vision," with its rock-and-roll satanism and its contemplation of the apocalypse, fancies itself as "darker" than that of the Batman and Superman movies, but it's infected with the same doltish jokiness. Michael Jai White, John Leguizamo, Theresa Randle, Martin Sheen, D.B. Sweeney, Nicol Williamson; directed by Mark A.Z. Dippé. (1997) — Duncan Shepherd
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