Great atmopshere but I forgot how bad Heather Graham is in this.

While I do think Alan Moore is just a crusty old curmudgeon, he was right to complain about this one. It's fucking terrible.

A decent film about the investigations sorounding the legendary Jack The Ripper.
Johnny Depp and most of the cast are decent, but the weakest link for me is Heather Graham, felling clearly miscasted.

I could never rate this atrocity of a movie because I've seen it days after reading the comic. For those who don't know, this abomination came from a comics masterpiece written by Alan Moore and drawn by Eddie Campbell. It's certainly one of the best books I've ever read: perfect writing, perfect graphics and perfect storytelling. This movie would be just another weak excuse for wasting time, but the problem is: it wanted to be the books adaptation to cinema. And it's just crap! No wonder Alan Moore doesn't aprove any of the movies made from his work... He (and Campbell) delivered a flawless work of art and seen it shattered into pieces. I felt ashamed...

File under 'not as enjoyable as you remember it'. Crumbly British accents, lots of inconsistencies and a finale which butchers the poignancy it so clearly shot for. Far, far too long. More on the site.

The acting is appalling and the dialogue stilted and forced as all hell (probably due to the graphic novel - man even the brilliant Robbie Coltrane can't handle the awkwardness of his Shakespeare spewing copper) BUT the conspiracy story, mood, atmosphere, fun and Ian Holm still make this an enjoyable watch for me.

Well, maybe not from HELL exactly, but not exactly from a filmmaking collaboration I'd seek out for follow-up work either... Ian Holm's presence always helps though.

File under 'not as enjoyable as you remember it'. Crumbly British accents, lots of inconsistencies and a finale which butchers the poignancy it so clearly shot for. Far, far too long. More on the site.

I could never rate this atrocity of a movie because I've seen it days after reading the comic. For those who don't know, this abomination came from a comics masterpiece written by Alan Moore and drawn by Eddie Campbell. It's certainly one of the best books I've ever read: perfect writing, perfect graphics and perfect storytelling. This movie would be just another weak excuse for wasting time, but the problem is: it wanted to be the books adaptation to cinema. And it's just crap! No wonder Alan Moore doesn't aprove any of the movies made from his work... He (and Campbell) delivered a flawless work of art and seen it shattered into pieces. I felt ashamed...

Good-looking but hollow. Obviously it doesn't stand up well in contrast with Alan Moore's incredibly dense book, but if you avoid comparisons it's not bad for the most part until a confused anti-climax of a final reel sees the film more stop than end.

An historical horror movie focusing on the crimes of Jack the Ripper, this one spans just about every Ripper theory going! It combines my two biggest hobbies - true crime and horror, and so I was always going to love it!

Check out my full review here soon:
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Third time's a charm. I've always thought of this as a quite standard crime thriller.
Watching it now, for the third time, I thought of it as a pretty decent take on the legend surrounding Jack the Ripper.
The Hughes Brothers does a lot of good things here, and creates just the right atmosphere for such a plot.

Absintti-huuruinen komisario tutkii sarjamurhia, joiden kohteina ovat rupsahtaneet horot ja eritoten niiden puhkikulutetut toosat.

Toimivaa jännäriä kaikessa synkkyydessään.

The Hughes Bros. master at atmosphere and suggestion in this eerie tale, structured as a period murder mystery in which Jack the Ripper has begun to terrorize Whitecastle and only Johnny Depp - a drug-taking, telepathic inspector - can tear apart (a huge stretch of) a conspiracy that is more sleazy fiction than history lesson.