From Hell (2001)
58 %
Reviews Counted: 144 Fresh: 83 Rotten:61 Average Rating: 5.8/10
Consensus:
Visually impressive, but this latest Ripper tale is dull and far from scary.
Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins
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 dissecting their bodies. Based on the graphic novel written by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell,... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm, Robbie Coltrane, Jason Flemyng
Director: Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes
Screenwriter: Terry Hayes, Rafael Yglesias
Producer: Don Murphy, Jane Hamsher
Composer: Trevor Jones
Screenwriter: Terry Hayes, Rafael Yglesias
Producer: Don Murphy, Jane Hamsher
Composer: Trevor Jones
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Reviews
Somehow, the movie taps into the book's uncanny implication that the very air is charged with malevolent ancient spirits...
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02/13/08
This wry, atmospheric procedural spawned by a real mystery would be thorny enough without also being an adaptation.
04/18/07
Top Critic
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
01/02/07
Jack the Ripper has proven a far more durable movie baddie than Freddy, Jason and Hannibal combined.
05/26/06
Top Critic
While Allen and Albert Hughes' adaptation of Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's graphic novel may not completely satisfy anyone's shallow bloodlust, it certainly has something more substantial to offer.
12/06/05
This movie is beautiful to look at, but has little substance. All Depp and no depth.
09/30/05
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.
01/15/05
What the Hughes Brothers have done in making a lavish period piece complete ...... is nothing less than a revolutionary achievement.
12/07/04
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!
02/24/04
As From Hell sprints toward its climax, the tone grows more grim, the violence more explicit and the conspiracies more shrill.
10/03/03
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.
03/04/03
Loaded with appealing gothic style and dread-laden atmosphere, but the story is incredibly dull.
01/12/03
Its slow pace and a lack of on-screen chemistry between Johnny Depp and Heather Graham prevent the movie from being the intelligent and haunting thriller it could have been.
12/08/02
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11/10/02
Stylishly photographed and suitably atmospheric, the film nonetheless takes too many liberties to please fans of the comic book.
10/30/02
...this is simply a boring movie. It's far too long and a real snore-fest.
10/21/02
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