The Spirit, a film directed by Frank Miller is a comic book story about the hero the ‘Spirit’ who defends Central City from crime.

The story itself seemed very well developed, Sand Saref’s hatred for the police and the law, triggered by her father’s accidental death by the Spirit’s uncle, entwines their destiny to eventually reunite. The correlation between the Spirit’s sense of respect for the law compared to Saref’s hatred for it was a brilliant way to impose depth and character envelopment between the two.

The eventual conclusion that the source of the spirit’s unnatural powers he uses to fight crime were an experiment conducted by the spirits’ very nemesis the Octopus, was a well planned and thought out construct that ties all the characters together.

Because of Frank Miller’s earlier work such as directing Sin City and producing 300, there are similarities portrayed in The spirit that can be seen in his previous works. These similarities between Sin City and The spirit are visually entertaining and illustrate a well defined sense of what was depicted in Will Eisner’s 1940s comic strip.