As garden-variety mysteries go, though, it's a chilling and visually creative one.
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10/19/01
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
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
Restores chill to an earlier meaning.
10/19/01
When the film tries to be a Sherlock Holmes knockoff, it's fairly gripping, but when it tries to be a riot of visceral verve, it reeks.
10/19/01
The gaudiness of From Hell might make the film effective for some viewers, on its own cheap terms. But the movie is a disastrous example of filmmakers whose reductive sensibility is not up to the density of the work they've undertaken.
10/19/01
The Hughes brothers do not disappoint.
10/19/01
Victorian England has never seemed more alarmingly alive than it does through the eyes of the brothers Hughes.
10/19/01
If you adore the truly ghoulish, it should amply entertain you. But try not to watch it before or after a big lasagna feed.
10/19/01
Johnny Depp, who continues to be our most adventurous anti-Hollywood movie star, is thoroughly convincing, Cockney accent and all.
10/19/01
An instant classic.
10/19/01
Half-baked and frozen over.
10/19/01
In Menace and Presidents there was an additional level of involving social criticism that gave us a reason to endure the mayhem. Here, the film is considerably more off-putting than what it gives back.
10/19/01
Top CriticDelivered with a visual flourish that puts even Tim Burton to shame.
10/19/01
A Jack the Ripper movie that fails to scare you just can't be a good thing.
10/19/01
An effective and ghoulish horror film which takes the viewer on a nightmarish journey into the tortured soul of a serial killer and the secret society's demonic purpose that spawned him.
10/19/01
It's watchable and stylish but not memorable. Disappointing.
10/19/01
A loud and overbearing two-hour wallow in depravity that I could have done without.
10/19/01
Definitely worth a trip to the local bijou.
10/19/01
For all its strained attempts at sensationalism, From Hell comes across as little more than a slasher flick in Masterpiece Theatre costumes.
10/19/01
Its explanation is ultimately improbable, and it makes the Masonic order look like the occult cult in Eyes Wide Shut. But it's engrossing while you watch it.
10/19/01
An occasionally awkward mix of art film and slasher flick, From Hell manages to make its luridness intelligent enough -- and its intelligence lurid enough -- to send you home satisfied.
10/19/01
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