Okay. It is kind of like INDIANA JONES in purple tights, yet it has some pretty good scenes. The cinematography is wonderful. One gets the feeling of actually sashaying about in the deepest, darkest Bengali Jungle. This helps with the film a lot.
Billy Zane plays the title character, who, with the help of Devil, his pet wolf, protect the weak, dispenses justice and fights for good causes. How he accomplishes to stay so busy in a relatively remote jungle baffled me, but it is a movie, after all.
THE PHANTOM's action sequences are tempered, yet still has the thrills n' spills to propel it forward. The Phantom character gets drawn into a nasty plot by megalomaniac industrialist Xander Drax (Treat Williams, whose proclivity for over acting is starting to spawn legends...). Drax wants to rule the world, you see, and since this takes place in the late 1930's, he's not alone in this ambition.
The plot isn't extremely intricate, but thankfully doesn't grandstand or preach. It just keeps pace, but might have a few adults knitting their brows, as the screenplay leans toward absurdity at times. A museum scene, where thundering action takes place in front of a virtual mob of people. They stand there with mouths agape. Then, are easily led out of the scene because somebody tells them of refreshments in the other room(!). I don't know about you, but I am certainly a tad nosier than that.
All tolled, THE PHANTOM is okay. Recommended for a very rainy day only.
Billy Zane plays the title character, who, with the help of Devil, his pet wolf, protect the weak, dispenses justice and fights for good causes. How he accomplishes to stay so busy in a relatively remote jungle baffled me, but it is a movie, after all.
THE PHANTOM's action sequences are tempered, yet still has the thrills n' spills to propel it forward. The Phantom character gets drawn into a nasty plot by megalomaniac industrialist Xander Drax (Treat Williams, whose proclivity for over acting is starting to spawn legends...). Drax wants to rule the world, you see, and since this takes place in the late 1930's, he's not alone in this ambition.
The plot isn't extremely intricate, but thankfully doesn't grandstand or preach. It just keeps pace, but might have a few adults knitting their brows, as the screenplay leans toward absurdity at times. A museum scene, where thundering action takes place in front of a virtual mob of people. They stand there with mouths agape. Then, are easily led out of the scene because somebody tells them of refreshments in the other room(!). I don't know about you, but I am certainly a tad nosier than that.
All tolled, THE PHANTOM is okay. Recommended for a very rainy day only.