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Have you even heard of The Shadow? I hadn't. It's a 1994 film starring Alec Baldwin (and a star-studded cast) where Alec plays the comic-book inspired Shadow.

Thanks to Netflix.com and some random suggestion made by its service, we had the bizarre pleasure of watching this film over the weekend. This is the strangest, weirdest cool movie that defies any ability to describe it. It's not a good movie in the sense that you'd say to your friends, "Yah, that was a good movie." It's a good movie in the sense that it has an awesome, strange mix of filming and style that makes you say something like, "you should see it, but you probably won't like it." But then you'll want your friends to watch it so you can talk about it. Get it?

The dialog was not good, the acting was okay, the cast was amazing, the story was so-so, but there was something very cool about the visuals and something extra that's hard to put a finger on. At first I hated it. In the end I wanted to watch it again. Very strange. 1.5π.