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With Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm, Robbie Coltrane Directed by The Hughues Bros. The brothers who brought us ghetto flicks like Menace II Society and Dead Presidents invade the gothic London setting of Jack The Ripper. But, as they've stated, it's little change for them, as it deals with urban violence. Amazingly shot and constructed, the Bros. put together their most ambitious and visually intense film to date. Depp is the controversial detective Abberline whose visions of murders aid him in his cases, albeit after the fact. When a group of prostitutes get murdered one by one (with ritual and clinical precision, by someone who refers to himself as "Jack The Ripper"), the case pulls tightly like a noose. The film reflects many comic book moods (part of its inspiration coming from Alan Moore's graphic novel). Dark, ominous, atmospheric, visceral, gritty and very closely linked to the facts of the actual case, this impressive motion picture will scare some, but intrigue most, especially those who know the name Jack The Ripper, but very little of the case itself. PS. I heard somewhere that Marilyn Manson appears in this film - the only character I thought he could be was under prosthetics as the Elephant Man - unless he was lined up for something but didn't do it - or the source had it quite wrong. 
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