I have The Phantom starring Billy Zane on video and rewatch it fairly regularly. I wouldn’t say I love it but it’s one of those movies I can watch to pass the time when there isn’t anything else on. What can I say? I’m addicted to superheroes. But I definitely got more than a chuckle out this:
Don’t get me wrong, I have a major soft spot for this 1996 Billy Zane vehicle, based on the Lee Falk comic strip, but that says little about its quality. The reason this guy makes the list has less to do with his ham-fisted line delivery or dorky alter ego as it does his lethargy. The film establishes that The Phantom lives in the jungle and had for many years after abandoning his life in America. But had those thugs not wandered into his jungle on that fateful day, he would have continued sitting on that marble thrown in that cave forever. He is the least proactive superhero of all time who apparently deems it necessary to wait for evil to come to him that he may thereby slam it. Also, that purple suit serves what purpose in a jungle setting? Wearing that, the only place he would be camouflaged would be in Prince’s bedroom.
via The Five Worst Superhero Films.
Snort. I may never look at that movie the same way again. 😉