If you can buy the pillow-lipped Angelina Jolie as a psychic FBI agent in Montreal to hunt a serial killer, then you can swallow the other implausibilities in this retread thriller.
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03/25/04
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
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
The curse of the Best Supporting Actress Oscar lives on....With Zen-like purity, Jolie has boiled her acting style down to pursing her lips and darting her eyeballs.
03/25/04
Caruso spins a downright wicked thriller so tense it's guaranteed to scare you out of your seat at least once.
03/24/04
Sadly, something went awry during the conception and execution of the film's final narrative arc.
03/24/04
Taking Lives” makes the grade.
03/24/04
Ever wonder why movie serial killers can't just, like, shoot people or something?
03/24/04
Jolie's detective ... seems to be merely one more graduate from Inspector Clouseau Academy.
03/23/04
Like so many brilliant detectives before her, this FBI investigator is aggressive and intuitive, prone to odd behavior and arrogance.
03/23/04
It's a thriller with an interesting premise that ends up being mediocre because of a contrived ending.
03/22/04
Angelina Jolie manages to make attractiveness seem unappealing.
03/22/04
The best bet might have been to ditch the tedious police procedural and just let the flick turn into the shamelessly jumpy creep fest it was born to be.
03/22/04
Caruso succeeds in giving Taking Lives the necessary dark feel and just enough of a drawn out character development needed for a thinking man's thriller.
03/21/04
"Normally," says one cop, "finding lips that big in Montreal means visiting the local boulangerie and placing two loaves of French bread under your nose."
03/21/04
Ethan looks mighty uncomfortable in this generic thriller.
03/21/04
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03/21/04
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03/21/04
Top CriticJolie is far too good for this tripe but she does give the film its only believable moments, and for the first half, her concentration makes you watch her intently.
03/21/04
It all culminates in a final showdown so ludicrous that if I explained it to you in detail, you would laugh and call me a liar.
03/21/04
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03/21/04
Tediously conventional and ho-hum.
03/19/04
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