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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304438237
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6304438230
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Release Date: June 10, 1997
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 12270
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: June 07, 1996
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
This plain-vanilla version of the old Lee Falk comic strip stars Billy Zane as a 1930s incarnation of the Phantom, an African-based, masked hero whose forefathers have all donned the costume at one time or another. Sworn to crush evil, the Phantom leaves his jungle lair to venture to New York, where he takes on a charming but criminal mastermind (Treat Williams). There's no oomph to this film at all. The very capable director Simon Wincer (Phar Lap) seems to be working with a leaden production and an inferior talent pool behind the camera. The talent in front of the camera do their best, but it isn't enough. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - well done movie
It is based on the comic strip character. It is well done and produced. They did an excellent job on it.
Rating:  - The Phantom......Slam Evil!............
This action-adventure movie based on Lee Falk's comic strip, The Phantom, has to be one of my all-time favorite movies. Set in the 1930s, the film is loosely based on the first two Phantom stories, "The Singh Brotherhood" and "The Sky Band". The film tells us the story of Kit Walker, the 21st Phantom, and his attempts to prevent the rich madman Xander Drax from obtaining a weapon of doom, the Skulls of Touganda, possession of which will give him the secret to ultimate power and world domination. ... Read More
Rating: - A worthy to watch film!
The phantom is one of these movies amused movies that makes you laugh and have a good fun, filled of common places and irresistible landscapes. "The ghost who walks" is embodied by Billy Zane who captured the mysterious and at the same time the spirit of the personage with astonishing naturalness. Although the enormous resemblance between him and Val Kilmer, he develops a fine performance. Kristy Swanson is credible like Lily Palmer and Catherine Zeta Jones makes her final launch before being recognized ... Read More
Rating:  - Everything is skulls for this guy
Better than I thought it would be. The Thailand locations are beautiful. The four leads all give it their best, with a weak script. Would have liked to see these actors, and the characters they played, in a better more fleshed out story. The two animals, the horse and the dog, should have been given enough screen time and "personality quirks" to delight the little ones (and us big people). Same goes with the butler. Some nice flying sequences. Some nice actual New York city street scenes, with bunches of ... Read More
Rating: - The Phantom Review
This product was a fun movie, take it for what it is, as an entertaining movie not meant to have the highest quality acting and screenplay. Good fun and light and entertaining.
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