Review of From Hell (2001) by Bravado Q — 13 May 2009
This is a very good movie and... historically and forensically accurate. Knowing a little about Jack the Ripper, however, kind of ruins the ending. You know that Mary Kelly is going to die, or else that would blatantly altering history.
Robbie Coltrane and Ian Holm are both brilliant British actors. However, one might come to think that Coltrane is a less better actor than Holm, because he played a warm and friendly character here just like he does in Harry Potter.
Ian Holm's characters seem to have more scope. He goes from being a brilliant doctor to being a psychotic, messiah/god-complexed serial killer. The only tacky part was the wide dilation of Holm's eyes near the end or they black lenses in his pupils.
What does that? Is he possessed by the devil? Or enlightened with a dark revelation of the truth of the working of the world and mankinds inner innards?
This review of From Hell (2001) was written by Bravado Q on 13 May 2009.
From Hell has generally received positive reviews.
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