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The Shadow
1994
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Positive Reviews
10
Negative reviews
8
Average Rating
2.7
/5
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1.5
The Shadow, like 1991s The Rocketeer, tries to pass off its retro thinness as a quasi joke, but its a desperate strategy.
EW
3.8
If you respond to film noir, if you like dark streets and women with scarlet lips and big fast cars with running boards, the look of this movie will w ..
Rogerebert
1.5
Baldwins low key performance lacks charisma, Lone alternates between lip smacking villainy and camp humour, and Miller is chiefly a clothes horse for ..
Time Out
1.5
Will Khan make Big Apple sauce Or will the hero prevail The Shadow knows, but he doesnt really seem to care.
1.5
Most of the time, you wont be chuckling, so much as contemplating the emptiness that lies in the brains of all too many production executives.
3.0
The ups and downs of this movie are similar to those of the Batman films, and most audiences may be as forgiving of them here as there.
2.0
Whats on the screen is so tired by now that youve seen it before even if this is your introduction to the Shadow.
E Film Critic
4.0
This may have been the last cinematic stab at capturing the essence of a faded literary phenomenon
E Film Critic
2.5
Polished to a high surface gloss, but nothing lurks beneath; nothing at all.
Tv Guide
3.8
Unlike Batman, however, this film is light and bouncy and doesnt take itself seriously.
Lariat
1.5
A decidedly mixed bag of campy humor, wild eyed fantasy and high tech special effects.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
1.5
No one involved seemed to have anything interesting to say or present visually.
Internet Reviews
3.0
This may well be a piece of summer fluff, but I found it far more engaging than the usual superhero film.
Internet Reviews
4.5
The Shadow is a very underrated and incredibly entertaining action fantasy that never forgets what made the original serials and comic books so darn e ..
Cinema Crazed
3.5
The grandiose presence of Alec Baldwin manages to give cohesion to this little gem.
2.5
Despite handsome production values and a crackerjack supporting cast, The Shadow remains a temperamental trinket that lacks the temerity to truly expl ..
The Filmy Ap
2.8
Its a failed attempt to revive a former pulp hero who has been passe for years.
Dennis Schwartz Reviews
4.5
Its an entertainment that deserved to have become the first of a series.
Film 4
4.5
It has enough of the innocent exoticism and splendor of silent thrillers to suggest a continuity with the past missing from most other movies; all tha ..
Chicago Reader
0.5
This thing is all packaging and no content, or, dare I say it, all shadow and no substance.
Globe and Mail
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