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Taking Lives (2004)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:9
Rotten:27
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: A stylish, but predictable thriller where the only thrills are offered by the sensuous Angelina Jolie.
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... [More]
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland, Olivier Martinez
Director: D.J. Caruso
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Reviews for Taking Lives
Top CriticIf you can buy the pillow-lipped Angelina Jolie as a psychic FBI agent in Montreal to hunt a serial killer, then you can swallow the other implausibilities in this retread thriller.
03/25/04
Top CriticJolie is far too good for this tripe but she does give the film its only believable moments, and for the first half, her concentration makes you watch her intently.
03/21/04
Top CriticNosedive it does, abandoning all pretense of style and eccentricity for at-times laughable predictability.
03/19/04
Top CriticWould have to work nights to reach mediocrity.
03/19/04
Top CriticWhile not breaking any new ground, director D.J. Caruso's movie also doesn't disappoint.
03/19/04
Top CriticTo buy this picture, you have to buy Jolie's character, and the actress succeeds much of the time. But once her contained, job-obsessed agent gets involved with a man close to her case, much of what came before is negated.
03/19/04
Top CriticJust as the central criminal steals the identity of his victims, Taking Lives lifts traits and style from other movies. Both do so relatively successfully, until they bungle the job in the final half-hour.
03/19/04
Top CriticTaking Lives is smarter than your average serial-killer movie, thanks to unusually fleshed-out characters inhabited by a high- pedigree cast.
03/19/04
Top CriticScreenwriter Jon Bokenkamp litters the trajectory with more red herrings than the traffic can bear in less than two hours.
03/19/04
Top CriticEven with Angelina Jolie thrown in for forensic sex appeal, this dog won't hunt.
03/19/04
Top CriticIt's slick nonsense at best and for the first hour it's watchable.
03/19/04
Top CriticBest of all, it doesn't star Ashley Judd, who has made a wearying specialty out of playing tough-tender female cops. Danger-prone Angelina Jolie is on the case here -- an improvement that pays big dividends throughout.
03/19/04
Top CriticTaking Lives isn't bad, really, it just isn't distinctive.
03/19/04
Top CriticThis is more disappointing than it might have been because Taking Lives has a low boil but constant simmer that has been rarely present in previous attempts to revive the insinuating creepiness of The Silence of the Lambs and Se7en.
03/19/04
Top CriticA thriller that provides jolts - and not enough lasting kick.
03/19/04
Top CriticJolie needs a role with teeth, not one that merely exploits her bee-stung lips.
03/19/04
Top CriticTaking Lives is actually an effective thriller, on its modest but stylish level.
03/19/04
Top CriticTaking Lives is so lifeless and beside the point that its DVD version should skip letterboxing and just be shown in a heavy chalk outline.
03/19/04
Top CriticFrom the opening credits, Lives seems bound to recapture the queasy mood of 1995's Seven. But it's too dull to even pull off quease until a notably unpleasant climax.
03/18/04
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March 08, 2004:
Director D.J. Caruso (The Salton Sea) shows promise. But when’s the last time Jolie starred in a really good movie? 
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