Loaded with appealing gothic style and dread-laden atmosphere, but the story is incredibly dull.
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01/12/03
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
Reviews for From Hell
21 - 40 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
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
This is one of those stories that's too awful to watch and too fascinating not to. See it for the superb direction, cinematography (by the way, it was filmed in and around Prague), and acting.
10/21/02
The story's flights of conspiratorial fancy come across as more silly than scary.
10/15/02
This new Jack the Ripper film arrives just in time for Halloween.
08/02/02
Jack the Ripper gets another cinematic outing with this rather creepy and violent thriller from the Hughes Brothers.
06/20/02
I know it's a cheap shot to say that the title is an apt description, but ... There, I did it anyway.
06/05/02
From Hell se desborda de la pantalla hasta hacernos sentir texturas, sabores, tensiones y miedos.
05/25/02
It won't have you jumping out of your seat, but it will surely make you squirm.
04/19/02
The Hughes’ failure lies not within the technical aspects of the film, however, but within the misconnection with the audience.
04/19/02
Nearly everything in the film manages to be simultaneously boring and overwrought.
03/05/02
Pays off with an ending that is both cheesy and poignant in equal measures.
02/28/02
Works effectively as a piece of pure atmosphere but fails on just about every other level.
02/26/02
Vivid, loud and gory... a movie of gusto
02/17/02
Many of the ideas that were sophisticated in the original graphic novel by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell look shopworn on screen.
02/16/02
Top Critica clumsy amalgam of contemporary vision and period thriller
02/15/02
A whodunit where the who is bloody obvious and the characters disposable.
01/25/02
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