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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Go For It,
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This review is from: Taking Lives (Director's Cut) [DVD] [2004] (DVD)
This was a follow up to the movie The Bone Collector, only in the sense however that her character has developed from being a cop to detective mainly dealing with murders. The plot to this movie is she is asked to go to go Canada and help solve a number of murders that appear at first not to be connected.
From reading previous comments on amazon i was abit wary of how good this movie was going to be as people had not rated it highly. However i thought it was a great moive, with plenty of twists and turns that left you shocked at the out come. Maybe im just more into thrillers or maybe im easily pleased when it comes to movies. I would definately recommend this.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
unremarkable serial killer movie,
By Mr. Stephen Kennedy "skenn1701a" (Doha, Qatar) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Taking Lives (Director's Cut) [DVD] [2004] (DVD)
This film is what it is - a by the numbers serial killer movie, that in its heart seems to think it is cleverer and more stylish than it actually is.However, the location and the offbeat casting do make it worth watching, with some occasional successful stylistic flourishes, and at least one genuinely jump out of your set moment. Angelina Jolie is in one of her weakest roles here - the FBI profiler with a secret past, a loner who has her own unusual methods of immersing herself into each case. This is never truly explored more than that two dimensional outline however, and Jolie seems to try very little to flesh that out. The 'Unrated' aspect involves one sex scene which for once does actually integrate into the plot, but does seem a somewhat gratuitous use of Angelinas well known attributes. Ethan Hawke is fine but not outstanding in an initially ambiguous role, and Kiefer Sutherland is barely there in a few scenes, so dont be fooled by his front cover billing. In fact the scenes with him make for some of the few highlights of the movie. Olivier Martinez and the other French actors fill out thankless roles adequately. Enjoy it, its not a bad movie, but dont expect surprises or any sense of enjoyment in the process of filmmaking from anyone involved.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
EXCELLENT OPENING, CHEWY MIDDLE, DUD FINALE,
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This review is from: Taking Lives (Director's Cut) [DVD] [2004] (DVD)
Artfully done movies that go poof thanks to juvenile plots are so much more tragic than outright silly films. Taking Lives must've been among the most stunning productions of 2004, no doubt, yet it shall remain relegated to oblivion because it sets up a textured plot only to falter before the credits roll. It's almost as if the team was so busy finessing the product they ran out of time and shipped it before it was fully done. Angelina Jolie plays a psychological profiler from the FBI called upon to solve seemingly connected murders in French-speaking Montreal. She works alongside a couple of cardboard cops -- one a tightly wound incompetent, the other a doting ex-colleague -- to come up with desperately needed leads. Enter Ethan Hawke, an art dealer, a witness to one of the murders. An actor clearly in full command of his art, he is fascinating in long monologues. As this happens, Keifer Sutherland lurks in the shadows on street corners. He has remarkable screen presence, I'm increasingly impressed with the man and hope he bags roles with more meat in the future, but his bit here is sadly inadequate, more of a twist than a role really. On a positive note, the film unfurls with hypnotic rhythm. The acid-jazzy score lends richly to the overall elegance. You may want to postpone your dinner though, the murders are gruesome and the director doesn't wince in showing open cadavers. I thought this was needless, as was an utterly skippable intimate interlude between Angelina Jolie and Ethan Hawke, tossed in for no imaginable reason other than to add on some precious minutes, because soon after it we have an ending that feels almost like a different film. It's cramped into less than 10 minutes, killing the delicate cadence of the movie that preceded it. And it's as idiotic a finale as you've seen in recent memory. For all but the last ten minutes of its length Taking Lives smacks of topnotch production values, but as they say: give them a strong last impression and you have a hit, goof it up and you're dead as disco. Taking Lives, for all its charm, trips and does the latter.
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