- Also known
as Jack during filming, directed by
Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes is an
American film
trying to be British. To sum up in less
than a few words a "who dun it film"
that is based on the infamous Jack the Ripper.
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- Like my
summing up above it is hard to say much more. It is a very strange film, that has
so much unused potential, but the actors
being American, poorly digitized sky of
London, bad scripts and props sees a very stylistic
Victorian England that is more American than
English. This slightly ruins the
authentic
feel of the film making it feel very removed
from the history books. A lot of
Sherlock homes stylisations were also
employed like the use of drugs that sees the
plot drift of course frequently. The irritating
thing is that they had to put a special power
for the hero. He is meant to be psychic,
but this is a dead end and could be lost very easily
and would stop the plot going off in ever increasing
tangents that just prolong the tedious story
line that droll on respectively like
this. For gore and suggested horror it
scores highly, but alas this one is very very
poor 2 stars, as my self and the three other viewers
on Southport Reporter all agreed, could just
as easily get one star if it was not for the
fact that it has a good twist at the
end.
Cast
first credits only:-
Johnny Depp
plays Inspector Frederick George 'Fred' Abberline, Heather Graham
plays Mary Kelly, Ian Holm plays. Sir William Gull,
Ian Richardson plays Police Inspector Sir Charles Warren,
Robbie Coltrane plays Peter Godley, Lesley Sharp
plays Catherine 'Kate' Eddowes, Susan Lynch plays Liz Stride,
Terence Harvey plays Ben Kidney, Katrin Cartlidge
plays Dark Annie Chapman, Estelle Skornik plays Ada,
Paul Rhys plays Dr. Ferral, Nicholas McGaughey plays
Officer Bolt, Jason Flemyng plays John Netley, the Ripper's Driver,
Annabelle Apsion plays Polly and Joanna Page plays Annie Crook.
Rated
18 for strong violence, gore, sexuality, language and drug content.
Film Review by Patrick Trollope.
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Film
review:- From Hell.
Tagline: Only the legend will survive.