Sunday, July 19, 2009

July 18, 2009

From Hell (2001)
Say what you want about Heather Graham - actually, I'll say it for you. She's a terrible actress. But if you can look past her performance, this is actually a really good movie. The directors spent a lot of time building sets that were as close to exact replicas of the locations of the Ripper murders as they could get based on limited photographs and references. The real Frederick Abberline didn't get opium-induced visions (as far as I know) but anytime you want to show Johnny Depp in a bathtub smoking opium in a movie is okay with me. The Jack the Ripper theory that they're working off of sounds completely ridiculous, but apparently it's one of the more widely accepted ones. Watch and make the call for yourself, but be warned of a few things first. It's not a movie for the faint-hearted and it doesn't exactly follow the accepted course of history.
My Netflix rating: 4 stars

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