Movies Based Upon Comic Books

Arnie was the best choice to play the title role because he's big and strong as the following legendary comic book.

This George A. Romero and the modern master of printed terror Stephen King film is funny and scary tribute to the E.C. horror comics of the 1950s. Like Vault of Horror and Tales from the Crypt, two titles from that period, it's an anthology of ghoulish bedtime stories.

Not a bad jungle adventure of a female Tarzan.

The action is large-scale, the plot suitably fantastic and the climax slam-bang.

Spectaular and funny adventure film of a street smart cop turned as the no. 1 recruit of top secret organisation.

Not bad in a sword and sorcery epic having a female lead.

In this horror and terror film based on short stories by Stephen King and a screenplay by George Romero are so scary to me than the original. But one of three tales, The Hitchhiker is the best I ever liked featuring Lois Chiles as a hit-and-run driver.

Cowabunga, dude! Great fun and action-packed comic book for the screen. Four ninja turtles look excellent in the live-action onto their fight scenes against the minions of the evil Shredder.

The flying sequences are incredibly jerky and unbelievable, as is the airship.

Quite good funny and excitement action with the lean, green teens against the return of their archenemy Shredder and two new creature-mutanted villians. Actress Paige Turco is better than Judith Hoag as the new reporter April O'Neil role.

This is not bad adventure and little hilarious of where youthful ninjas-on-the-half-shell and their friend travelling back in time to feudal Japan.

Spectacular dark, gothic and action of a murdered rocker rises from the grave in the guise of a crow. Brandon Lee's last film was excellent in his action-packed than his past movies.

Jean-Claude Van Damme does a good job in this sci-fi thriller movie that mixes hard-hitting action with awesome special effects, romance and murder.

S-S-S-SMOKIN'! Most outrageous action-comedy of a wise-cracking love-crazy, crime-fighting green tornado. Jim Carrey does an excellent act on his 'rubber' face when wearing a green mask. Cameron Diaz is a real knockout, even keeping pace with the rubber-legged Carrey in a Dance sequence that has to be seen to be believed.

Lori Petty's a bit funny as the title role and this movie kicks major butt!

What's worse is that Stallone's earlier sci-fi action flick Demolition Man, managed to capture the humour and totalitarian feeling far better than Judge Dredd ever did. And in the comic book, Dredd shouldn't dare be seen in his face while taking his helmut off.

This live-action family film based on the kid's comic books and cartoon is fantastic with the CGI of the friendly ghost Casper and his bully uncles. Much funny better than the classic cartoon.

Pamela Anderson seems not a bad femme fatale in this based on a comic book of sexy bounty hunter-heroine film. Action-packed is bit dull.

Bare breasts and exploding bodies are all the rage in hot gorefest.

It's great and believe this is not a sequel, but a virtual remake of the 1994 film, with French actor Vincent Perez as a motorcycle mechanic back from the dead to avenge his own murder including his son. This time, the urban-hell atmosphere is ever darker and dirtier. The chic despair and morbid obsession with death is overwrought, and at times unintentionally comic. Brandon Lee was the best original character avengeful hero.

Jet Li turns in a great performance as the lead and his martial arts and abilities are amazing.

Scary of an anti-hero from hell looks perfect from the following Todd McFarlane's IMAGE comic book.

This sci-fi-comedy about an unofficial government agency that regulates and polices the secret immigration of outer-space aliens living on Earth, is an enticing romp based on a little-known comic book series. Tommy Lee Jones is the ultimate straight man, playing against Will Smith, a darling of contemporary cinema. One of the most flat-out entertaining films of the decade. The only reason it doesn't deserve five stars, is because, well, it isn't quite on the level of Citizen Kane.

This moronic, sanitised version of Conan author Robert E. Howard's pulp fiction superhero of the 1930s is average, also features an irritating heavy-metal rock score.

Worst and poor comic book story of strangely likable heroes.

This third installment of The Crow series is okay as what I thought it's better than the second one. The acting was decent, but nothing mind-blowing. Eric Mabius seemed to have more fun doing the action sequences. Kirsten Dunst, surprisingly, is both pretty and can act good.

Although not as imaginative fresh, and gleefully twisted as its predecessor, this wacky sci-fi saga still entertains. The result, while silly and funny, lacks the first film's genre-twisting attitude, but I still like it.

Cool flurry of high-flying acrobatics, martial arts action and quick-witted humour in this movie based from comic book. (Disappointed it has no English substitles)

The adventures of the cult comic book character who fights for good and gives evil hell come to life in this bonafide blast of a film!

Great adventure and sort of romantic of the heroic Sky Captain and a female reporter. Set in the late 1930s, this is a modern-day version of the old-time serials with stereotypical characters balanced by spectacular special visuals. The only "real" thing on the screen is the actors; everything else comes from computer-generated special effects.

Worst one of The Crow series I ever watched. Edward Furlong as the next Crow is average in his action sequences of this action-horror film.

Milla Jovovich's title character and her action was average than Resident Evil sequels.

Perfect comedy of a talent young artist (Max Minghella) who wants to become the world's greatest artists while studying in the art university. Sophia Myles looks so stunning as the young artist's dream girl.

It's a bit familiar to The Crow, but very different story based on the comic book. Wilmer Valderrama does a fine performance as the zombie superhero, but the action was average.

I see these mutant heroes return again since 14 years after the last big live-screen venture into an animated film. These characters including TMNT, their master Splinter and their friends, April and Casey, has never changed in their voices and acting. I like the exciting scenes of TMNT and their friends fighting against the Foot.

Worst futuristic film based on the comic book series "The DNA Hacker Chronicles" because of the action sequences looked terrible. The production deisgn with the backgrounds of the futuristic world weren't bad at all, but quite strange. Bai Ling did a fine performance as the assassin, but she looked sexy in her outfits.

Hellboy was something of a dream project for visionary director Guillermo Del Toro and this fantastic sequel is even better than the original 2004 film. Once again demonstrating his versatile ability to segue between arthouse projects and big Hollywood films, Del Toro combines action, horror, humour, jaw-dropping special effects and a menagerie of otherworldly creatures that must be seen to be believed.
Once again Del Toro's assisted by Ron Perlman's generous performance, a curiously arrested lug bringing a construction worker's attitude to the weird and wild universe, Doug Jones's expressive gesticulating as Abe Sapien, and Selma Blair's excellent way with angular riot-grrl hair. And new recruit Johann Krauss is a memorable addition to the paranormal department, a prissy vapour man in a steampunk suit who enjoys baiting Big Red.

Director-writer Frank Miller, best known for his graphic novels turned movies, shot in the same striking monochrome-with-a-dash-of-red style that distingusihed Sin City is little impressive and followed the familiar scenes from his comic book he created. Gabriel Macht is a trench-coat cipher whose manner evokes "fancy dress gangster party" (is he wearning Nikes?) rather than tortured vigilante soul. What presence there is comes from Eva Mendes's femme fatale sand Saref, who gets the movie's one good line ("Shut up and breed"), Samuel L. Jackson and Scarlett Johansson. The latter's in Johansson's element portraying a nurse's costume or watching vacantly as Jackson, complete with SS outfit, cane and monocle, rambles an unprompted Nazi tirade that might have been lifted from The Black Gestapo.