This was a two part movie about the beginnings of a crime fighting super hero with ancient ties. Even though it takes a long time to set up, it's not that bad of a movie. The action scenes take a long time to set up and there is a twist ending that was rather predictable, but other than that, not a bad waste of time.
Dating back to 1530s, which is like the Bronze Age or something, this guy's boat got ambushed by pirates. He was the only survivor and he decided right there that he would fight for justice. Enter in the secret society of whatever to help The Phantom get the job done. The pirates also have a secret society to plunder, pillage, and do all around pirate things.
Modern day ... a new The Phantom is recruited to go after the secret society of the pirates. He has all the resources of someone like a Bruce Wayne and a hot redheaded girlfriend like Peter Parker. The parallels are obvious.
Bottom line is this, action scenes are few and far between. Blood is at a minimum, but it is understandable since this is supposed to be about a crime fighting super hero and most of them don't spill too much blood on the television. I admit, this is not exactly the B movie that Medusa's Face normally reviews, but I was 20 minutes in and decided to finish it.
It's just way too long for me. I don't mind movies that are a little longer than 2 hours and I really liked that they broke this one up into two parts, but it took way too long to set up his girlfriend. Then it took way too long to set up the lead character to become The Phantom. Then it took way too long for The Phantom's objective to be set up. They could have cut out a lot of scenes and made it into one 2 hour showing for me.
I give this movie 2 out of 5 cable boxes.
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