The Phantom takes Christine deep beneath the Opera House. He tells her they can never again return to the surface, that he was the one behind everything. He tries to calm her down by playing the violin when she has a revelation, the Phantom is her father. She removes his mask and is astonished by his disfigured face. The inspector arrives to save Christine. The inspector pulls a gun on the Phantom, the Phantom saves Christine as the underground begins to collapse on the Phantom. Christine picks up the mask of the Phantom and drops it into the water as they make their escape.
At the risk of repeating myself with some of the adaptions I feel there is little new here. It is the basic story we know, no real twists or turns... save one. In this version the Phantom is Christine's father. This is such a late development as to be almost baffling. The art, which has been a highlight, at times feels muddled and confusing in several pages. The underground suddenly begins to collapse. The duel is very short lived and unfulfilling.
five out of ten.
