Excellent but underrated film

Captivating movie !

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Even after reading all the reviews by what I can only figure are cynical movie fans, I still chose to watch this.Well I was surprised that more people didn't get it. I have to confess I do believe that most people are not as smart as they pretend to be or even believe themselves to be but to think that all heroes have to be superhuman "steroid freak" type characters that have been popularized by the major comic companies (Marvel, DC, etc)is limited. The TV series Heroes had normal average people as characters with little muscle definition but was still a premise. I would urge anyone thinking about watching this flick to open their minds a little more and give it a chance; and you cynics, maybe you could read/watch something outside your comfort zone, something from outside Stsn Lee and his brethren's world.

mix it with Sin City, and then throw in a little Casablanca for good measure? Hopefully something sparks. And in this particular case—you do indeed get Sparks. The film had everything going for it: an amazing cast, awesome special effects, great story with nice twist and turns, tragedy and redemption. Sparks has become my new 2013 favorite. Folino and the others did an outstanding job with this super hero thriller that I believe to be filmmaking's rare gem. Sparks can not be compared to other super-films because It's To Damn Good! Take the badassness of Sin City,the coolness of Spider-Man Noir, the grit of Watchmen,sprinkle in the powers of the X-Men and you're still only half way to Sparks.

So I watched this a while back,i had seen it pop up a few times,and the info on it sounded OK so I thought why the hell not,that was my first mistake and time I will never get back!!since I've watched this film i have never told a soul about it,i would only watch it if you have nothing better to do,then i would try and find something else to do before choosing to watch it ha ha ha,first the acting was terrible,worse than most acting on the sc-fi channel,now that's saying something,then the film itself was terrible!!so terrible in fact that i had to watch it as punishment for putting it on!! but hey that's my view but you have been warned!!

My god....where do I start. Unlike what a few reviewers have said, this movie is not brilliant, it was not an amazing story, and the acting is certainly NOT good.The acting in this movie, especially from the lead actor, Chase Williamson, was abysmally deplorable. I think that a cat in a large paper bag could have done a better job portraying Ian Sparks. To me, it seemed that he was just cold reading from the script while delivering his lines during filming. Very few of the other actors/actresses were much better. Clancy Brown's performance was, in my opinion, the only real redeeming acting job among the entire cast. Although at the end, even his acting fell short. Beyond the deplorable acting was the film itself. The concept of the movie was what drew me to watch it. The idea of the noir super-hero movie was intriguing, and I truly looked forward to seeing it. Wow, was I in for a surprise. I sat through the film, hoping it would get better, but it just got worse and worse with every scene. It seemed that the writer couldn't decide if the lead character, Ian Sparks, was supposed to be a poor Batman, or a moral Comedian (Watchmen). It also seemed that the concept of the superhero story was being shoehorned into the noir detective story. All in all, this movie was an incredibly bad, low budget, poorly acted steaming pile of horrible. Don't waste your time. DO NOT SEE THIS MOVIE.You have been warned.