The Phantom 1996 by AverageMansReviews

The Phantom 1996 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/character on fire/choking/impaling/animal feeding

Storyline: it is good and the pacing; knows what it is doing and sticks to that.

Comedy & Action: we have Devil [Wolf] running back to Hero [Horse] seemingly telling him "Our master needs your help." Hero replies "Okay." And off they go [I should just point out I am not Dr. Doolittle.]

Comedy individually; Morgan/Siemaszko gets this interpretation the first time around slightly wrong from Zak/Petchlor, but the second time around he gets it right.

Action individually; we have Walker/The Phantom quietly [I would really like to say stealthily, but I can't on the grounds that it is in daylight, so it isn't exactly stealthily; you can clearly see him if you were looking in the right direction if you were a hench-person or another evildoer character.] But I digress; he is going from underneath and across like a slough, to get onto this ship.

For another example; we have The Great Kabai Sengh/Tagawa vs. Walker/The Phantom/Zane; sword fight, everything in this section of this Review/Blog is good

Art: [Hearing/Visually] there is these violinists playing music, [Visually] scenes with animals or just the scenery; likewise these are good

Characters/Performances: including the on-screen chemistry these are all good, you know they are something safe and reliable, but a special mention has to go out to Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as The Great Kabai Sengh; regardless of how big or small his role is in a project or if you happen to be watching one of his older films "You may get that feeling of I recognize that guy from somewhere." Basically he is able to make an impact or himself known in one way or another [just to cover my back in the films I have seen him in] and this film is no different.

This film receives: 6/10, this film is good: after everything is said and done this mark is a fair outcome and on a side note this film at minimum is an honorary member of Marvel films, based on the grounds on an animated TV program by the name of Defenders of the Earth [1986-1991;] Marvel Productions, which if the MCU were thinking of beginning from a different perspective having one project on one of these characters and their off-spring before creating the Defenders of the Earth [basically use the tried, tested and highly successful formula of Phase 1 of The Avengers/MCU.] But please do Ming the Merciless justice unlike they did/didn't/whatever with Ben Kingsley as Trevor Slattery acting as The Mandarin [Iron Man 3] and I know Ming the Merciless and The Mandarin look very similar if you're waking up with a hangover, but I would really like it if Ming the Merciless came back to the big screen eventually, preferably after this global pandemic so I can see him on the big screen and yes whilst we're on the subject I really wouldn't mind seeing the Mandarin being done properly at some point in the future; you know seeing him in all of his glory this time around, I'm just saying.