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...From Hell," retells the story of Jack the Ripper by recontextualizing it into the social and political milieu of its time. Queen Victoria, the Freemasons, the Elephant Man and the beginnings of media hysteria get swirled into the atmospheric mists of Whitechapel, London. The comic version may well turn out to be the writer Alan Moore's magnum opus. Meticulously researched, it took five years to complete and totals over 500 pages, including copious footnotes. Moore first gained mainstream media exposure when his "Watchmen" series, about the killings of retired superheroes, established him as a master at orchestrating long-term...
...have their own misty style, but have chosen to shoot in color. The look of the movie becomes its best asset, exploring the medium's unique possibilities of luminosity, movement and composition. The mint-green of Aberline's absinthe shows up in the color of the lanterns on the Ripper's carriage, among other touches...
...comes as no surprise that moviegoers these days are desperate for escapism. If that mood holds, From Hell, opening this week, may be just what the doctor ordered. Especially if the doctor's name is Jekyll or Moreau. From Hell is Hollywood's latest search for Jack the Ripper. It stars Johnny Depp as an opium-addicted Victorian cop and Heather Graham as one of the prostitutes stalked by the madman in London's low-rent Whitechapel district in 1888. It's a shocking movie, to be sure, but this is its most unexpected twist: it is directed...
...Hughes brothers parachute us into the narrative around the time of the first incident, where real-life Inspector Frederick Abberline—played, accent and all, by Johnny Depp—is assigned to lead the investigation into what would became infamously known as the Ripper Murders. What the Hughes fictionalize is Jack’s targeting of a group of six sisterly “unfortunates”—one of whom is Heather Graham—in Whitechapel, tempting them with grapes and dulling their senses with laudanum-laced absinthe before doing the ghastly deed. He?...
...tale that has so singularly captured public attention (over 100 books have been written about the Ripper, more than the combined total written about American presidents), the formation remains staggeringly and exceptionally mediocre. Right down the center, the film is middling; From Hell doesn’t present the intrigue or the hysteria surrounding the killings with any emotive force, nor does it probe the murderer’s sociopath psyche in any telling detail. It’s a thriller that rarely excites, a mystery that doesn’t intrigue and since we know already that Jack...