The Phantom - DVD

OK. I'm biased. It's the Phantom. It's not the one I know and love, but it's the latest incarnation. If you don't know there is a patrilineal thing going on. The son of of the son of the son of.... always takes the mantle of The Phantom, so he appears to be immortal. The ghost who walks... talks, shoots, punches... As with a lot of 'pilots' it failed to get a series. This is a shame as it could have been as successful as 'Arrow' became. Hope the character lives on. His graphic novels are selling, so maybe one day someone will make another attempt at it.

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This is a long 2 part story. It appears to be made for Canadian TV. No sex, nudity, or bad language. Like American movies, the bad guys are black, except in this one they speak French Canadian. The main bad guys hang out in Switzerland and boast a mish-mash of indistinguishable international accents, including one female (Belladonna Lithia) whose haircut makes me think she was once part of the Swedish Bikini team of the 1980's.Ryan Carnes plays Chris Mooore, who lives with people he thinks are his parents. Like Luke Skywalker his past is kept secret and then one day he comes home, finds his legal guardians killed by the bad guys and vows revenge. Like Spiderman, he also likes the redhead next door. And there is a corporate meeting which reminded me of the one in Kill Bill.Chris Moore has lost his memory and doesn't know he is the Phantom, although he does like to jump around the roofs of buildings. Once he is arrested, his DNA goes out on the Interpol network and he is discovered by the Good Guys and the Bad Guys, the Singh. Eventually Chris assumes the role of the Phantom and uses his new high tech bullet proof suit. It turns out his dad died from cancer (must have been those purple dyed asbestos fibers in the old suit). The bad guys have a weapon called "Flicker" or Flickr for you Yahoos or Flicka for you cowboys. This device uses digital TV to turn people into Manchurian Candidates, who will keep the war machine going and the arms dealers rich.The movie doesn't have long drawn out action scenes. It is long on dialogue and building characters. If this is the first in a series. i.e. an introduction of characters, they did a good job. However, if this is it, you might wait until you have 3 hours to kill on a movie that is more carrot on a stick than action.

It passes a couple of hours. The disc arrived in good condition. No prolems.

Nicely done,though timeline is off.

This takes forever to get going and even longer for our Hero to put on the Famous Suit,but when it kicks off properly its worth staying with.

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I am a second generation Phantom fan. I even enjoyed the earlier version of The Phantom [DVD] [1997], this one is a really good modernisation of a classic (actually the first) superhero. I have to say though I really hate the new costume, but the cast and storyline really make up for that.The Kit Walker was the only survivor of a Pirate attack, he is washed up on shore of Bengal, and taken in and trained by the local Bandar tribe. He becomes the original Phantom then his children follow him in this quest creating the illusion of an immortal, a "Ghost who Walks".This story follows the 22nd Phantom. Christopher Moor is an athletic daredevil. 24 Years old and has a scholarship in one of the more prestigious law universities in the country. That changes when he is told his is really Kit Walker and the last living heir to the Phantom legacy.The reason I like this modernisation is because they use smart and effective use of modern technology. I said earlier that I hated the new costume. This is not completely true. I like the fact that is body armour but I think they should have kept the original mask. I would have also liked the have had more action but I understand why they on a limited budget could not go over the top. One thing that did do well is that fact that despite Kits natural abilities and martial arts training he has to me retrained (in survival and thinking fast in combat situations) into the Phantom. The only down side is I think this was made as a pilot to a series and was not picked up, which is very disappointing for a fan like me. That is the only reason I took away one star. I wish there was a sequel, but I will take what I can get. Well worth a watch.

Acheté en croyante que s'etait le DVD au lieu du Blu-Ray... javais deja vue ce film il y une dizaine d'annee et je n'ai jamais pu le retrouver...donc tres content de l'achat

Eine sehr gute Verfilmung dieser Geschichte.

スーパーマンやバットマンなど世界的なコミック・ヒーローに比べてみても、なんら遜色は無いあの伝説のヒーローが新感覚で蘇った！ただ、スパイダーマンのピーター・パーカーを思い起こされるスケボー好きなシティー・ボーイが主人公で、ちょっと重みに欠けるきらいも無くは無い・・・。やはりファントムはジャングルの王者、大自然の島で鍛えられたタフな肉体と文明社会でも通用する稀に見る知性の持ち主でなくてはならないが、本作はどこか物足りなくミス・マッチ。しかしアメコミ映画の潮流としてはそれなりのストーリー性も兼ね備えており、気軽に見るのには楽しい一作だろう！

When I first saw the teasers for Syfy's Phantom miniseries, I was dead set against it. I saw just another unrecognizable revamp of a beloved character with vast history. Trading in the purple tights for a suit that looked more like a sans-mask Guyver? Where was Devil? Where was Hero? Multinational corporate suits for the Singh? But I decided to go ahead and give it a try as a diehard fan of Phantom in print and film. What could I lose but 4 hrs of my life in exchange for a chance to mock another bad revamp of a comic superhero. After watching it, though, I couldn't really mock it. I found I loved the new Phantom as much as the old one.Considering this isn't our familiar 21st Phantom, but his son, Kit Walker #22, I understood there would be changes, but was still a bit resistant to losing the impression of immortality, the consistent look that makes The Ghost Who Walks that is entirely tied into the classic suit. But realistically, the myth of immortality isn't vital to this Kit. There was a twenty year gap without a Phantom at all after his father died, the Singh were well aware of the truth about the bloodline seeing as they tried to kill little Kit to end it, and in a new, more sophisticated era, the concept of him being immortal just wouldn't be as threatening as it might to villains of a more imaginative time. In the vacuum of an active Phantom, his allies had turned to high tech paramilitary development, so by the time his son was found, they could make a straight switch to a completely new Phantom without worrying that they would destroy a legend most had forgotten about anyhow. This Kit was free to take the best of his ancestors and add his own personal twist, to create a modern hero ready to deal with modern threats.What really sold me on the 22nd Phantom, though, was Ryan Carnes. I loved Billy Zane's portrayal that hailed back to the classic serials and gave a real sense of the immense history of the character, but Carnes took it a different direction in keeping with a 21st century Kit. He played a completely relatable, totally genuine character, and seeing him bring the Phantom to life is by itself worth the watch. Yes, it takes a long time to get to the Phantom, but you can't help but love seeing how he develops from reckless and self-absorbed Chris Moore into heroic and valiant Kit Walker. If they'd rushed it, we wouldn't really know Kit #22 or why he's not the Phantom we've come to expect. Carnes's Kit struggles with figuring out how to handle an organization his father never had to, with infighting and treachery in his own ranks, how to lead rather than just be the guy in the suit, how to maintain his own identity while honoring the legacy of ancestors he never knew, and how to handle the loss of the only life he understood growing up in his adopted family. Through three hours of film he finally manages to find a balance, to reinvent the Phantom in a believable and relevant way.If you go in expecting this to look anything like 21st Phantom, you'd probably be better off sticking with Billy Zane, who played the classic Phantom perfectly. If you go in expecting it to be a trashing of an established icon like a lot of current TV and film superhero portrayals, you might be more than pleasantly surprised. The revamp is well-thought out and explained, respects the classic 21st, and yet gives us a modern and relevant hero who is just as strong. And Ryan Carnes makes it work, making a hero that's more relatable than you expect from the genre.

... avec les aventures de ce jeune super héros. Les adaptations des célèbres comics (daredevill, batman, superman et j'en passe) n'ont jamais été faciles à réaliser pour le cinéma car souvent les lecteurs s'attendent à une fidèle adaptation et parfois la déception est là lorsque le réalisateur a pris trop de liberté avec le scénario ou dans l'étude des personnages. Pour ma part dans "The Phantom" on entre vite dans le vif du sujet et dans la vie de ce jeune garçon (Chris Monroe/Kit Walker) qui est étudiant en droit et fan de parcours urbains. On adore tous les super héros qui se battent contre des méchants ou des organisations criminelles. Ici on ne déroge pas à la règle et Kit Walker nous emmène dans une histoire où une organisation appelée les Singh se sert des travaux d'une scientifique qui est un "as" dans la suggestion et la manipulation mentale pour accroître son pouvoir. Les acteurs Ryan Carnes (Kit) et Cameron Goodman sont bons et j'ai adoré retrouver Isabella Rosselini (trop rare à mon goût au cinéma !!!) dans le rôle de la scientifique. Les 170 minutes que durent le film passent vraiment très vite (il est en 2 parties sur le DVD !!!). Je ne me suis pas ennuyée une seconde car on se laisse emporter par le scénario et à la fin on se dit qu'il devrait y avoir forcément un 2e opus au Phantom et à sa marque à la tête de mort alors... à quand la suite !!!