The Shadow
1994 PG-13
ACTION 1h 48min
CAST— Alec Baldwin, John Lone,
Penelope Ann Miller, Peter Boyle, Ian McKellen, Jonathan Winters, Tim Curry
MUSIC— Jerry Goldsmith DIRECTOR— Russell Mulcahy BASED ON— Characters appearing on The
Shadow (radio)
Alec Baldwin plays the title character in
this fun, superhero-esqe fantasy. Lamont Cranston, billionaire/playboy (sound
familiar?) is secretly The Shadow, a mysterious nighttime avenger with the
ability to cloud the minds of men, giving him the power of relative
invisibility against his enemies. But now a new threat comes to town: evil
Shi-Wan Khan (last descendant of Genghis Khan) plans to use an atomic bomb on
all of New York City, in an effort to complete his ancestor’s mission in life,
that of total world domination. The plot is pretty standard, yeah, but the film
is still pretty good, with interesting characters and effects, giving its 1930s
theme a definite 1990s edge.
OUR RATING— ** ½
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