Taking Lives is an engrossing thriller about a woman warrior who finds herself lost in the darkness during her obsessive pursuit of a serial killer.
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03/18/04
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
121 - 140 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Sadly, nothing in this thriller comes close to the intensity of last year’s media coverage of star Ethan Hawke’s alleged infidelities on location in Montreal.
03/18/04
The phrase 'from the sublime to the ridiculous' was made to describe Taking Lives
03/18/04
Angelina takes off her clothes again...hurrah!
03/18/04
Looks great, holds our attention and – despite numerous stumbles – never completely falls on its face.
03/18/04
Somber, absorbing thriller that treads familiar psycho serial killer terrain with style.
03/18/04
Top CriticDirector D.J. Caruso gives the movie some life, particularly in a stylishly energetic footrace, but there's not much he can do with this dopey script.
03/18/04
Despite a brief distraction provided by some utterly gratuitous Jolie nudity, and a finale that is simultaneously riveting and idiotic, Taking Lives does not improve much on this season's crop of mediocre suspense films.
03/18/04
Taking Lives has such a diabolically wonderful premise for a thriller that watching it sink into the abject silliness of The Silence of the Hermit Crabs is all the more disheartening.
03/18/04
If Taking Lives starts off with a modicum of wit and creepy-crawly scares, it winds up somewhere else altogether.
03/18/04
D.J Caruso's artfully photographed mystery thriller is even better looking than its stars, Angelina Jolie and Ethan Hawke. But even your pet Chihuahua could sniff out the solution.
03/18/04
Taking Lives clearly aims to be a stylish, eerie chiller along the lines of Seven. Despite a nerve-wracking car chase and one jump-out-of-your-pants shock, the results are more like Three.
03/18/04
An unimaginative, protracted gore-fest that swipes from David Fincher's Seven like a cinematic pickpocket but only comes up with lint.
03/18/04
Solid genre movie.
03/18/04
If the intent was to develop Jolie's persona into a kind of Clarice Starling, it fails so completely that it's ludicrous...a mind-numbing, floundering, forgettable thriller.
03/18/04
Elegant, good-looking and well-performed, D.J. Caruso's psycho-thriller is an enthralling and engaging drama that works well thanks mostly to its sexy cast.
03/18/04
Jolie may have those much-touted lips, but at this point she's much more in need of better judgment when it comes to reading scripts.
03/18/04
Jolie is one of those actresses like Ashley Judd who are capable of giving good performances in good movies, but for undisclosed reasons have decided not to.
03/18/04
surprises and satisfies beyond initial expectations
03/18/04
At a certain point, Taking Lives gives up any pretense toward sense and starts piling up insanely improbable extravagances.
03/18/04
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March 08, 2004:
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