20 Comic Book Films You Should Die Before You See

20. The Phantom

Lee Falk’s comic strip hero becomes an Indiana Jones wannabe in this big bucks adaptation that was neither well cast, well-staged nor particularly exciting.

A movie guaranteed to leave you thinking, “What else is on?”, The Phantom would dearly love to be mentioned in the same breath as The Rocketeer and Dick Tracy, but it’s too lead-footed even to get away with being dumb escapist fun. 

And worse, it gave Catherine Zeta Jones an early Hollywood gig.