From Hell (2001)
Country: US/GB/CZ
Technical: DeLuxe/scope 122m
Director: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
Cast: Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Robbie Coltrane, Ian Holm
Synopsis:
Inspector Abeline interrupts his doomed love affair with the opium pipe to investigate a series of murders in Whitechapel, apparently executed by a trained medical practitioner with connections both to the Crown and the freemasons.
Review:
Adapted from a graphic novel, this addition to the Jack the Ripper sub-genre has some striking London skylines courtesy of CGI and brings off suitably comic strip-like compositions and transitions, but suffers from characters to whom we just do not get close enough to care. In the end one wonders what this really adds to A Study in Terror et al. save its talented star and enhanced gore.
Country: US/GB/CZ
Technical: DeLuxe/scope 122m
Director: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
Cast: Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Robbie Coltrane, Ian Holm
Synopsis:
Inspector Abeline interrupts his doomed love affair with the opium pipe to investigate a series of murders in Whitechapel, apparently executed by a trained medical practitioner with connections both to the Crown and the freemasons.
Review:
Adapted from a graphic novel, this addition to the Jack the Ripper sub-genre has some striking London skylines courtesy of CGI and brings off suitably comic strip-like compositions and transitions, but suffers from characters to whom we just do not get close enough to care. In the end one wonders what this really adds to A Study in Terror et al. save its talented star and enhanced gore.
Country: US/GB/CZ
Technical: DeLuxe/scope 122m
Director: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
Cast: Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Robbie Coltrane, Ian Holm
Synopsis:
Inspector Abeline interrupts his doomed love affair with the opium pipe to investigate a series of murders in Whitechapel, apparently executed by a trained medical practitioner with connections both to the Crown and the freemasons.
Review:
Adapted from a graphic novel, this addition to the Jack the Ripper sub-genre has some striking London skylines courtesy of CGI and brings off suitably comic strip-like compositions and transitions, but suffers from characters to whom we just do not get close enough to care. In the end one wonders what this really adds to A Study in Terror et al. save its talented star and enhanced gore.