...Jolie's Scott is just not tough enough to overcome her incredible beauty and make us believe she can get down and dirty when it counts.
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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
101 - 120 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
What really compromises the impact of Taking Lives is that the 'surprise' about the identity of the madman is a foregone conclusion.
03/19/04
Unfortunately, Taking Lives doesn't add any brilliance to the exhausted spot-the-serial-killer psychological thriller, but get props for a clever ending.
03/19/04
It isn't as bad as it could be or as good as it should be - I would wait to see this on video.
03/19/04
[W]e’re meant to believe that [Hawke] is so intensely seductive that [Jolie] cannot resist him. Which would be laughable if it weren’t so boring.
03/19/04
Jolie and Hawke have a real chemistry between each other and this tends to make one forget some of those enormous plot holes.
03/19/04
A twist or two will only throw off some -- but most will be able to solve this crime all too easily.
03/19/04
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03/19/04
Top CriticIf you don't try to make it all make sense, you might find it to be a thriller with a couple of genuine thrills. At least this one doesn't star Ashley Judd.
03/19/04
Serial thriller starts with a bang, ends with a whimper, and never really moves beyond following its forebears.
03/18/04
From 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
Top CriticAfter skillfully playing with us with numerous possibilities of who the 'real' killer might be, it tips its hand way too early in the story -- and, after that, it's all downhill.
03/18/04
[A] generic pulp thriller.
03/18/04
The story is, as you can tell, preposterous from the get-go...
03/18/04
How Ashley Judd failed to pounce on this script, I'll never know.
03/18/04
Angelina Jolie plays an F.B.I. profiler on the trail of a sick and ingenious serial killer. Is there anything more to say? Not really.
03/18/04
Top CriticAn above-average thriller.
03/18/04
Taking Lives serves up one letdown after another -- a serial disappointment if ever there was one.
03/18/04
A near miss of a thriller, but it's still a miss.
03/18/04
Caruso constantly takes the movie down blind alleys while emptying his always-handy crime-movie handbook of every artificial plot device.
03/18/04
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March 08, 2004:
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