I Loved this fim.

I agree, its not that bad. Anything with Kristy Swanson and Katherine Zeta Jones can't be all that bad.

This is indeed an underrated film. Zane made a very good Kit AND Phantom, and Catherine Zeta Jones was fantastic as the bad girl. The problem was a so-so plot, a so-so performance by Treat Williams as the villain, and the extreme ineptitude that is Kristy Swanson. I've always thought her to be great looking, but she just doesn't have the acting chops nor the presence to pull off the female lead in a major production.

Casting is everything ... especially in a film of this type. Too bad the producers didn't try a second effort. The production values on this film were spot-on.

not nearly as good as the original.

I enjoyed it too. It had basically everything I ask for in a movie, and I reckon if it had been made in ways that would have made it a huge hit, I wouldn't have liked it nearly as much. Hurray for a certain amount of gentleness!

Agreed, this was a fun movie.

I loved it. When I read through the negative comments on here, most seem to come from people who really don't know the comic. For example I just read through a whole thread of people whining about the suit being purple (which it usually is in the comic except in some countries where the colour was different). And complaints about his eyes being shown. Not showing eyes in the comic is a stylistic decision. It's not as if the phantom really wears a mask that just shows white patches for his eyes.
My only real complaint was that there was a bit too much emphasis on supernatural elements. That tends to be pretty rare in the comic. It does happen but stories that deal with the supernatural are the exception rather than the norm.

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