From Hell
For all of you who knows the comic, this is obvious. The movie was completely new to me, I also didn’t know anything about Jack the Ripper or Stephen Knight’s theory about it (on which the comic and movie are based on), so I was able to feel lots of suspense during the whole story. I always had a little bit the feeling that Gull might be the culprit, but of course I wasn’t sure.
In the end, the story itself was pretty simple, but very well executed. Ian Holm is so lovely that I thought it’s another person who plays his evil side; and Johnny Depp is just priceless. When I saw him the first time (that was Sleepy Hollow, by the way), I couldn’t understand why the friend I went to the cinema with was fangirling about him the whole time. Today, however, I consider him one of the most attractive men in the world – I especially love his acting. A movie is worth to watch as soon as he plays the protagonist in it (see Pirates of the Carribean). He even is able to do the incredibly charming “I care about you” glaze. XD
In fact, I didn’t plan to watch this movie at all – I just saw it was on TV yesterday. And since everybody I know praises it and I was already captured in the suspenseful story, I had to watch it till the end (and now, today morning, I find myself unable to post something… meaningful *>.<*) A propos TV, the german dubbing is just awful. I will not watch Amores Perros today, because I fear the bad dubbing. I'm thinking about watching "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" though. Hm... should I? I'm seeing so many bad reviews about it on the net XD This movie actually made me want to read the comic, even though I know that the comic is completely different, of course. Who knows, maybe I'll really start to read comics now?