From Hell | | Cast : | Johnny Depp, Heather Graham | | Director : | Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes | | Studio : | Fox Home Entertainme | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, DTS Surround Sound | | Released Date : | October 19, 2001 | | DVD Released Date : | September 07, 2004 | | Language : | Spanish (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 07, 2005 | | Summary | Dissapointing | Content
 | I just watched this movie and was dissapointed. It had the brilliant Johnny Depp in it as well as the hot Heather Graham. It had good reviews and was talking about an interesting topic. Therefore, I thought that it was going to be a very good movie. Wrong. The movie was interesting and captivating but had a lot of negatives. First of all, Johnny Depp's character was a major drug addict, which I found to be very strange and unnecessary. This degraded his character and made him out as a strange and weird guy.
Secondly, the movie wasn't a thriller. No, instead, it was a gorefest. Jack the Ripper is killing prostitutes so the directors are forced to show lots of blood. The movie is very dark and the ending is strange and cruddy. The movie is even too dark at times, such that you can't see anything.
The movie is also boring at times as well as even quite confusing at others.
Well, I guess that all that it has going for it is the acting but even the acting seems forced with the adopted accents by the prostitutes. Ian Holm and Johnny Depp are good and the score is also descent. When Jack the Ripper is shown, it's pretty neatly and cool made with the steps on his carriage, his top hat and his "operating tools".
So, as you can see, the movie isn't good and is very disspointing. It has few things going for it and the plot construction and gore are bad. Besides some good acting and neat reconstruction of ancient London, this movie is lousy and not worth a rent at all. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 24, 2005 | | Summary | Not quite hellish, but it'll do | Content
| The Hughes brothers' From Hell is a movie about Jack The Ripper. And it isn't. The movie's plot centers around the exploits and potential identity of Victorian England's mysterious knife-wielding prostitute killer, but its makers also try to shine a light on the darker aspects of that time and place, on the inevitable abuse of power, and on urban decay in general. With a vicious murderer prowling the streets and leaving victims in pieces in his wake, there's a palpable sense of dread hanging over the proceedings, but even if Jack didn't make an appearance, there'd still be plenty to fear. The 19th-century London of From Hell is a decidedly inhospitable place, racked by vice and crime, with plenty of unprincipled people willing to exploit the downtrodden for a buck (or, in this case, a pound). In other words, it's sort of like any of dozens of urban ghettoes in 21-century America, except the appearances of those involved and the weapons of choice are different.
I haven't read the Alan Moore graphic novel on which this movie was based, but the film version at least bears some pretty strong thematic parallels with Moore's V for Vendetta. While that comic classic examined the dark underbelly of a fictional post-Cold War fascist England, From Hell attempts to strip away Victorian England's veneer of respectability to reveal a society awash in decadence, corruption, and prejudice, where power is lodged in decidedly undemocratic institutions and super-secret plots abound. Some have written at some length about the movie's historical accuracy (or lack thereof), but it's really beside the point. From Hell is, simply put, a movie, not a documentary, and it entertains more than well enough with what it has. Plausibility issues aside, it looks great, with plenty of atmosphere and high style, some way cool visuals, truly painful death scenes, and liberal sprinklings of gore, which is just enough to get you to forgive the movie's haphazard pacing and occasional lapses into slasher-movie formula (even I could see some of the deaths coming a mile away). It's also got Johhny Depp sporting a nifty British accent as Fred Abberline, the tortured detective trying to fight through the corridors of power to collar the slasher while he also fights his own addictions and the visions of death and mutilation that come to torment him in his sleep; and a bug-eyed Ian Holm hamming it up as a royal doctor with some murky motivations and an obvious God complex.
So, in conclusion, you've got intrigue, nasty violence, some nice twists and turns in the plot as revelations start flying about halfway through, and another in a long line of excellent performances from Depp, not to mention a blindingly redheaded Heather Graham as perhaps the best-looking prostitute in all of London. Sure, it's a bit shallow, and the plot doesn't always hum along as briskly as it should, but nothing's perfect, right? Now to check out the book! |
| Rating | | | Date | July 10, 2005 | | Summary | An entertaining movie based on Stephen Knights/Martin shorts perspective | Content
| This movie was fun to watch and Johnny Depp was great as he mostly always is.
As far as factual accuracy is concerned...NO..
This movie seems to be based on Stephen Knight's and Martin Short's books about freemasonry...
In counter to those books I would recommend
John Robinson's "a pilgrims path"
and/or
Jasper Ridley's "the freemasons"
those are books and this is a movie...
The MOVIE is fun...the books its based on may be fundamentalist christian propaganda...
Did Johnny Depp know this.....?
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| Rating | | | Date | July 10, 2005 | | Summary | England's Most Wanted?? | Content
| I hadn't expected this to be a movie about Jack The Ripper. But since Johnny Depp was in it, it had a depressing ending and was interesting overall...like a cross between "Gangs of New York" and "Sleepy Hollow". With enough thrills and chills and mystery, that's like what "From Hell" is. If everyone knew why Jack The Ripper killed prostitutes, there'd be no mystery. But they didn't know. Johnny Depp was not as much of a "wuss" as he was in "Sleepy Hollow", and he still wants to figure everything out by investigating the corpses to try to find clues. Usually, he'd just find grape vines which helped him. You don't see Jack The Ripper's face and he lures the prostitutes to the location that he murders them. That's about it for him. I've read before that in real life, Johnny Depp is actually a huge Jack The Ripper fan, so it's no wonder. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 07, 2005 | | Summary | Great buy!!! | Content
| Recieved this DVD in 3 business days, came in perfect condition, not a scratch on the cover nor the disk. I would definetly order from them again. |
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