While the script is bad on story and clarity, it does provide some gems in the dialogue department. Recently Lee Elliot wrote favorably about The Shadow, quoting the following dialogue: ================================================== Kahn: "I will succeed" Shadow: "You know, of course, I going to stop you." Kahn: "You Americans, you're all so arrogant. You think this decadent, ill-informed society you've made is the high point of civilization..." Shadow: "Hey! You're talking about the U S of A now." Kahn and the Shadow have several good exchanges. Any movie in which Alec Baldwin says "I'm psychically well-endowed" can't be all bad. ================================================== Check out Buckaroo Banzai (1984, with Peter Weller, Ellen Barkin, John Lithgow, Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Goldblum) for a superhero movie with similar panache, and tongue-in-cheek self-referential style.