"The Shadow" was a cross between "Dick Tracy," "Darkman," and "Batman," while not being as good of any of them (except "Dick Tracy," that movie was bad). This is not me dumping on "The Shadow" because it doesn't compare to todays comic book movies, because I loved "Batman" (1989), "Darkman," and "Superman" (1978). "The Shadow" was just a poorly executed movie.
Alec Baldwin plays Lamont Cranston who was some type of big shot drug kingpin in the Tibetan mountains sometime before WW2. How that came to be? Who knows. He is then chosen by some mystic to be "The Shadow." He will be able to cloud the minds of people so that they don't see him, only his shadow. He can also do Jedi mind tricks and make people do what he suggests.
After finishing his superhero training in Tibet he returned to the all familiar seat of crime and crime-fighters: New York. There he lived a rich playboy's life, putting it on pause at times to fight crime. He would soon meet a girl (Penelope Ann Miller) who was similar enough to him--think Catwoman to Batman (she was even a petite blond like Michelle Pfeiffer)---and they had a romantic escapade.
He would have to confront a megalomaniac foe in Shiwan Khan (John Lone), a descendant of Genghis Khan. Shiwan Khan had all the same abilities as The Shadow except he used his powers for evil. Their showdown would involve a self-propelled knife, a hidden building, and the atom bomb. The whole ordeal was floptastic.
The script and the plot was dreadful. I couldn't take anyone or anything seriously because nothing made any real sense. It seemed like an attempt to release another big budget comic book movie that would rely on action and special effects to draw in the crowds. They were sorely mistaken.
Alec Baldwin plays Lamont Cranston who was some type of big shot drug kingpin in the Tibetan mountains sometime before WW2. How that came to be? Who knows. He is then chosen by some mystic to be "The Shadow." He will be able to cloud the minds of people so that they don't see him, only his shadow. He can also do Jedi mind tricks and make people do what he suggests.
After finishing his superhero training in Tibet he returned to the all familiar seat of crime and crime-fighters: New York. There he lived a rich playboy's life, putting it on pause at times to fight crime. He would soon meet a girl (Penelope Ann Miller) who was similar enough to him--think Catwoman to Batman (she was even a petite blond like Michelle Pfeiffer)---and they had a romantic escapade.
He would have to confront a megalomaniac foe in Shiwan Khan (John Lone), a descendant of Genghis Khan. Shiwan Khan had all the same abilities as The Shadow except he used his powers for evil. Their showdown would involve a self-propelled knife, a hidden building, and the atom bomb. The whole ordeal was floptastic.
The script and the plot was dreadful. I couldn't take anyone or anything seriously because nothing made any real sense. It seemed like an attempt to release another big budget comic book movie that would rely on action and special effects to draw in the crowds. They were sorely mistaken.