Everything that "The Spirit" should have been, but (sadly) wasn't.

Rating: 9/10 (8 March 2009)

Alan Moore? You should be proud. Hollywood was actually 99% faithful to your graphic novel! The only thing they changed about it was the plot-device for averting World War III.
In the graphic novel, Ozymandias cloned and mutated the brain of a human psychic. A brain that had memorized certain unpublished s.f. stories, plus images of a diorama meant to resemble an extra-terrestrial landscape. Basically, a variation on "The Architects of Fear," which was a classic episode of the original b/w OUTER LIMITS about a plot to unify the Earth through the global fear of an alien invasion from outer space. One that would never materialize, of course! But, one which the frightened people of the world couldn't take the _chance_ of never occurring.
And, I suspect that's the episode of OUTER LIMITS that was being aired on Dan's TV set , at the end of the film.
I paraphrase my opening statement, however, when I say that--in all other respects--Hollywood was surprisingly faithful to the source material. And, that delighted me, no end!