Average Rating: 5.7/10
Reviews Counted: 148
Fresh: 85 | Rotten: 63
Visually impressive, but this latest Ripper tale is dull and far from scary.
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Critic Reviews: 33
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 16
Visually impressive, but this latest Ripper tale is dull and far from scary.
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The true-life horror story of Jack the Ripper gets a new spin in this screen adaptation of the acclaimed graphic novel by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell. In 1888, a ruthless and cold-blooded killer begins hunting prostitutes in East London, and while the murderer's work is savage, the mutilation of his victims suggests the fiend has an extensive medical background. Amidst a background of political unrest and barely contained scandal among the royal family, the murderer's grisly exploits shock and
R, 2 hr. 17 min.
Oct 19, 2001 Wide
May 14, 2002
$30.7M
20th Century Fox
All Critics (148) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (91) | Rotten (63) | DVD (43)
Anyone expecting the combo of Allen and Albert Hughes and the famed Victorian serial-killer to result in a gritty, stygian, skin-crawling horror movie will be severely disappointed
This wry, atmospheric procedural spawned by a real mystery would be thorny enough without also being an adaptation.
The Hughes boys blow it by burying a fine cast ... in stock scares, sappy romance and cliches that really are from hell.
The only thrill, if you can call it that, is waiting to see who gets sliced up next.
It has the lush decrepitude of an autumn compost heap or an old Hammer werewolf flick.
What we have here is a perversion of the 'business as usual' recommendations we've been hearing lately.
Gruesome, predictable Jack the Ripper retelling.
Moore might not be merrier, but this is far from offal.
The problem with this film is that Jack the Ripper takes a backseat to the dull and terrible romance between Depp's policeman character and Heather Graham's prostitute character.
See it for the stunning visuals and Depp's performance rather than a factual re-telling -- if you can stomach it.
Somehow, the movie taps into the book's uncanny implication that the very air is charged with malevolent ancient spirits...
"From Hell works mostly on the level of an atmospheric drama. As a mystery, and as a thriller, it's not as successful.
Without a script on which to hang their vision, the brothers can only technically succeed. And, for better or worse, they do.
A disappointingly conventional thriller from the Hughes brothers (Menace II Society still their best film by far), neither chilling enough as a horror flick nor compelling as a character study; one of Johnny Depp's few mediocre performances
A rare, clever, horror film.
Jack the Ripper has proven a far more durable movie baddie than Freddy, Jason and Hannibal combined.
Fitfully arresting late night entertainment.
This movie is beautiful to look at, but has little substance. All Depp and no depth.
They want it to feel like one really bad dream ... and by the film's end we're too dizzy to think, to see if it all lines up.
What the Hughes Brothers have done in making a lavish period piece complete ...... is nothing less than a revolutionary achievement.
Some of the lines seem a bit over-the-top and the ending is improbable and schmaltzy, but it's a true Hollywood period film. Sit back and enjoy!
As From Hell sprints toward its climax, the tone grows more grim, the violence more explicit and the conspiracies more shrill.
The Hughes Brothers and their cast have taken Alan Moore's graphic novel of the same name and made it into one of the better bloody shockers of recent years.
In Victorian era London, troubled, absinthe addicted police detective Fred Abberline portrayed by Johnny Depp investigates gruesome murders in a slum known as Whitechapel. The victims are prostitutes who are easily targeted due to their lifestyle of walking the streets at night. Since the suspect known as "Jack the
September 25, 2010Super Reviewer
The most convulted, abysmal, and pathetic portrait you could muster under the stoyline's circumstances. Heather Graham's fake English accent almost made me scream.
August 3, 2010Super Reviewer
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