From Hell (2001)
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Reviews Counted:145
Fresh:84
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
Genre: Horror/Suspense
US 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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A superbly crafted, handsome psychological thriller. Full Review |
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Somehow, the movie taps into the book's uncanny implication that the very air is charged with malevolent ancient spirits... Full Review |
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This wry, atmospheric procedural spawned by a real mystery would be thorny enough without also being an adaptation. Full Review |
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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 Full Review |
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4/5 |
A rare, clever, horror film. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Jack the Ripper has proven a far more durable movie baddie than Freddy, Jason and Hannibal combined. Full Review |
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Fitfully arresting late night entertainment. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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1/4 |
This movie is beautiful to look at, but has little substance. All Depp and no depth. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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What the Hughes Brothers have done in making a lavish period piece complete ...... is nothing less than a revolutionary achievement. Full Review |
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2/4 |
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! Full Review |
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2/4 |
As From Hell sprints toward its climax, the tone grows more grim, the violence more explicit and the conspiracies more shrill. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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. Full Review |
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3/4 |
An interesting theory on the mystery of Jack the Ripper. Full Review |
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