I watched this for How Did This Get Made. I remember seeing this in theaters and not loving it as much as I wanted to...and that was basically the reaction I had today.

Kristy Swanson is great and gorgeous and charismatic and deserves to still be part of the pop culture landscape today. I know she still works, but you know what I mean. She needs to be forefront.

Billy Zane...you gotta love this guy. I will say as a kid I was shocked when Billy Zane shaved his head. "What about all that hair he had in Titanic and The Phantom?" I'd say. Oh to be so young and unwise again...he's obviously rocking a wig in this. It's weird how aware you become of the follicly challenged once you are near risk of becoming a member yourself. It's like when you buy a new car and all of a sudden you see all the other cars like yours on the road.

Anyway, purple in the jungle doesn't make too much sense. I don't think I'd fall for that microscope trick. James Remar was in this too so I can't outright hate it. But a mild disappointment.

I enjoyed this one quite a bit, but goddamn is that suit goofy.

Was there a second movie of The Phantom?

Lame and average nerver watch again

An under-rated gem from the 90’s.

The movies in the 90's were so cheese.

I wouldn´t say it is bad by default. It just suffers from the same fate that all off those early superhero movies do. It doesn´t take itself serious. It´s like the director saying "it´s a comic for christ sake so let´s put in a lot of stupid stuff that makes no sense and to hell with logic". I bet if they tried this today people would like it with all those CGI stuff you could throw into it. I´d really like to see that because I always like the human superheroes. But you need to do a decent origin part and not just a 20 sec fly through at the beginning. I read the comics as a child so I had a vague idea of the character but for the casual viewer this must have been confusing.

Level "Unremarkable" • 5 :heart: • Entertaining but bad.