Taking Lives (2004)
23 %
Reviews Counted: 149 Fresh: 35 Rotten:114 Average Rating: 4.6/10
Consensus:
A stylish, but predictable thriller where the only thrills are offered by the sensuous Angelina Jolie.
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Theatrical Release: Mar 19, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $32,634,479
Synopsis: A top FBI profiler, Special Agent Illeana Scott (Academy Award-winner ANGELINA JOLIE) doesn't rely on traditional crime-solving techniques to unravel the mysteries of a murderous mind. Her intuitive, unconventional approach is often the only way to unlock the identities of the killers... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland, Olivier Martinez, Jean-Hugues Anglade
Director: D.J. Caruso
Screenwriter: Jon Bokenkamp
Producer: Mark Canton, Bernie Goldmann
Composer: Philip Glass
Screenwriter: Jon Bokenkamp
Producer: Mark Canton, Bernie Goldmann
Composer: Philip Glass
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A production which would rather scare its audience with gore than reel it in via a gripping whodunit.
04/25/07
The film's villain may take fictitious lives, but the film itself takes up real time that could be spent on better things.
11/02/06
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Taking Lives won’t kill you, but it will steal precious hours you’ll never have back.
05/04/05
poor excuse for audience to waste time on a thriller whose makers have problems with understanding the meaning of the word "thrill".
03/02/05
Amir Mokri's purposely frantic (ie: jerky) camera work during action scenes irritates, but still 'Taking Lives' is a marginally diverting thriller.
10/14/04
When, at length, the promised climax does arrive, it will leave you gasping in astonishment, provided that you have never been to the movies before.
09/23/04
Take away a couple of good moments at the beginning and the end, and you have a standard TV crime drama.
08/10/04
Caruso sets up an initially intriguing premise, however gruesome, that unfortunately devolves into a welter of aimlessness, too many red herrings and B-movie hammy performances.
08/08/04
Angelina Jolie did a good job but I still can’t get past her “plastic fantastic” look.
06/11/04
The best Ashley Judd movie Judd has never made... a labyrinthine serial killer thriller that won’t win admirers for its intellect, but does have sustenance of mood in spades.
05/03/04
Taking Lives is bad, Ashley Judd bad, so bad it's mostly an unwatchable mess but also so bad it's almost good.
04/27/04
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