Nosedive it does, abandoning all pretense of style and eccentricity for at-times laughable predictability.
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03/19/04
Taking Lives (2004)
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Reviews Counted:152
Fresh:35
Rotten:117
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
Genre: Dramas
US 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
Reviews for Taking Lives
61 - 80 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticWould have to work nights to reach mediocrity.
03/19/04
Top CriticThis multiple-twist thriller gets off to a fine, creepy start but eventually becomes too preposterous for its own good.
03/19/04
While not breaking any new ground, director D.J. Caruso's movie also doesn't disappoint.
03/19/04
Caruso is a much more resourceful director than this material deserves, but I resented being two steps ahead of the genius profiler and the genius serial-killer.
03/19/04
Taking Lives is often style over substance.
03/19/04
To 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
Jolie hits a new low in Taking Lives.
03/19/04
Taking Lives is a good, near-great film that might seem a lot better if it hadn't been preceded by all of those Judd vehicles -- or if Jodie Foster's Clarice Starling never existed.
03/19/04
You'll jump, but then you'll feel silly.
03/19/04
There are too many flaws to count in Taking Lives.
03/19/04
Taking Lives is a swell-looking movie with lavish production values and not a single original idea, not a single surprise.
03/19/04
What the movie accomplishes in misogyny, it nearly equals in lack of imagination.
03/19/04
While it's not in a league with The Silence of the Lambs, it works in a similarly efficient way.
03/19/04
Really awful lady-cop- chasing-psycho- killer picture with dumb twists and dull dialogue aplenty.
03/19/04
Just 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
Taking Lives is smarter than your average serial-killer movie, thanks to unusually fleshed-out characters inhabited by a high- pedigree cast.
03/19/04
Screenwriter Jon Bokenkamp litters the trajectory with more red herrings than the traffic can bear in less than two hours.
03/19/04
Even with Angelina Jolie thrown in for forensic sex appeal, this dog won't hunt.
03/19/04
The first nine minutes of Taking Lives are, in fact, compelling and good ... Sadly, the rest of Taking Lives is not worth paying for.
03/19/04
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