Not-so-superhero movies

"Spawn" (1997)

On the page:  CIA assassin Al Simmons makes a deal with the devil that returns him to Earth as a spawn of hell forever distanced from the wife he loves.

How it turned out: Superhero movies usually work best when they stay true to the source material, which “Spawn” does. But as this movie makes clear, nobody was buying millions of copies of the “Spawn” comic for the story. The use of CGI elements for the hell battle was a noble experiment for the time, but one that doesn't live up to even the lowest standards today.