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From Hell (2001)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:16
Rotten:15
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: Visually impressive, but this latest Ripper tale is dull and far from scary.
Theatrical Release:Oct 19, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $30,692,411
Synopsis: FROM HELL is a gory detective film cloaked in Victorian-era mystique. The movie shows how the serial killer Jack the Ripper stalked the dark streets of 1888 London, slaying prostitutes and crudely... [More]
Starring: Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm, Robbie Coltrane
Director: Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes
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Reviews for From Hell
Top CriticThis wry, atmospheric procedural spawned by a real mystery would be thorny enough without also being an adaptation.
04/18/07
Top CriticThe Hughes boys blow it by burying a fine cast ... in stock scares, sappy romance and cliches that really are from hell.
10/29/01
Top CriticThe only thrill, if you can call it that, is waiting to see who gets sliced up next.
10/29/01
Top CriticIt has the lush decrepitude of an autumn compost heap or an old Hammer werewolf flick.
10/23/01
Top CriticThe feeling of patent unbelievability never leaves.
10/19/01
Top CriticPlays the enigma game out fully and well.
10/19/01
Top CriticRestores chill to an earlier meaning.
10/19/01
Top CriticThe gaudiness of From Hell might make the film effective for some viewers, on its own cheap terms. But the movie is a disastrous example of filmmakers whose reductive sensibility is not up to the density of the work they've undertaken.
10/19/01
Top CriticJohnny Depp, who continues to be our most adventurous anti-Hollywood movie star, is thoroughly convincing, Cockney accent and all.
10/19/01
Top CriticAn instant classic.
10/19/01
Top CriticIn Menace and Presidents there was an additional level of involving social criticism that gave us a reason to endure the mayhem. Here, the film is considerably more off-putting than what it gives back.
10/19/01
Top CriticA loud and overbearing two-hour wallow in depravity that I could have done without.
10/19/01
Top CriticFor all its strained attempts at sensationalism, From Hell comes across as little more than a slasher flick in Masterpiece Theatre costumes.
10/19/01
Top CriticIts explanation is ultimately improbable, and it makes the Masonic order look like the occult cult in Eyes Wide Shut. But it's engrossing while you watch it.
10/19/01
Top CriticAn occasionally awkward mix of art film and slasher flick, From Hell manages to make its luridness intelligent enough -- and its intelligence lurid enough -- to send you home satisfied.
10/19/01
Top CriticRather than a cohesive film, it feels like a series of vignettes -- little 'movie moments' put there for your viewing pleasure.
10/19/01
Top CriticThe movie feels dark, clammy and exhilarating -- it's like belonging to a secret club where you can have a lot of fun but might get into trouble.
10/19/01
Top CriticIt's one thing for Graham to drive Austin Powers nuts, but it's quite another to ask her to carry this grand guignol.
10/19/01
Top CriticGreat atmosphere, thin mystery.
10/19/01
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