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Taking Lives (Director's Cut) [2004]

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Binding : DVD
EAN : 7321900284073
Label : Warner Home Video
Manufacturer : Warner Home Video
Publisher : Warner Home Video
Release date : 2004-09-27
Title : Taking Lives (Director's Cut) [2004]
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Suitable for 15 years and over
Format : Array
Languages : Array
Number of items : 1
Original release date : 2004-04-23
Region code : 2
Running time : 105
Studio : Warner Home Video
Theatrical releaseDate : 2004-03-19

Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-02-12 rating:

The Bone Collector Part 2: This Time It's Competent
It's a film of no great merit and is distinctly run of the mill generic genre stuff. It has a strong start, and plods along well enough until it's illogical ending.

The film has one good shock in it that fans of Kevin Bacon in the first Friday the 13th might find familiar.

Keifer Sutherland (third credited) appears in about three scenes totalling about three minutes of screen time.

The movie has already started to evaporate from my memory as I write this the day after watching it. I did enjoy it as I wasn't expecting much and it's better than the terrible Bone Collector which also starred Angelina Jolie. It seems to be based on a generic airport-fiction crime book so you can expect that level of quality from this film.

I don't recommend it but if you're stumped for something better then it should pass the time painlessly enough. It's a time waster, nothing more.

review by: SRW date: 2007-10-22 rating:

GRIPPING THRILLER
Great storyline. More twists than a carpet factory.

The film is tense and you don't know who the bad guy is until the end of the film. Comparable to films like Seven or The Bone Collector.

GREAT FILM TO WATCH

review by: date: 2007-10-05 rating:

Predictable with a twist
Angelina Jolie plays Illeana, an FBI Special Agent who specialty is profiling. She is lent to a law enforcement agency in Canada that is on the trail of a serial killer. I was able to discern the killer almost right away. Which is why it is not 4 stars.

The killing spree this person goes on covers a twenty-year period. Where he kills people in order to take over their identity. And when he feels it is time to move on, he needs a new identity...therefore another murder. Considering the way they portray him, you would think he would kill more often then he does.

The ending, though not believable, is the only twist in the movie that took me by surprise. The movie, though easy to watch, is really only for big fans of Jolie. I would recommend renting this movie before you buy.

review by: mccanns23 date: 2007-06-27 rating:

good in parts ,bad in others
taking lives is a 2004 film that bombed on its release,while its easy to see why in parts,in other parts its better than alot of films that gain mass success.
The film is about a man who is fed up with his own identity and steals that of others along the way and assumes their identity and their life,a FBI profiler played by angelie jolie is sent up to montreal to find out what she can when the local police start to find bodies with the help of a man who has seen the killer played by ethan hawke.
The film starts well and has the odd jumpy moment that is stylish and certainly this film borrows from the classic movie 'seven' at times,alot of dark settings and eerie moments follow,there is a solid middle to the film as well so all is rolling along nicely and a decent if not totally surprising twist as well,but then for the last 30 minutes or so the film starts to fall on its face alot with a very drawn out ending with cliche lines and all that jazz,plus i find it strange that keifer sutherland is third on the films credits when he is hardly in it,my theory is that he did his parts while in montreal on a lunch break from filming his show '24',well thats my theory anyway,all in all this is a decent movie,worth a watch but beware of a sloppy and tiring ending that takes away from the films strengths considerably.

review by: date: 2006-12-16 rating:

Potentially good film that fails to deliver
FBI agent Illeana Scott (Angelina Jolie) is drafted to Montreal to profile a serial killer perpetrating horrific murders. Soon Costa (Ethan Hawke) a witness and art dealer appears and draws a likeness of the killer.

After a few brief nods to criminal profiling (I had hoped profiling would be the key element in the drama instead of a sideshow) we launch into the usual grisly manhunt with relatively predictable twists along the way.

Predictable plot apart the good production values, acting, production and cinematography are wasted by an unexpected, unbelievable and tacky ending that will long live in the memory.

Pity, this could have been an excellent film.

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