Ripper

Beat the Wing Commander (1999) in my list of the worse movie ever!

The film is so awful that I was considering sending an invoice to the producer for the movie ticket and the time I spend in the theater!

Looks like a B movie made in a bad cinema school! There is no story-line to follow, the dialog almost made me cry and the acting is really sad.

I was the only one left at the theater when the movie finished. Everybody else left in the first 15 minutes. I think that everyone was expecting some horror or thriller being a Jack the Ripper movie, but it is a scheme and the writer is probably a con artist... The movie could be about "Bob the murder" that would not make any difference at all.

Make yourself a favor and don't waste your time and money on it, unless you have other plans being alone in the movie theater.

"To the PAIN!" The Dwead Pirate Woberts quips and then gives a full detailed explanation as to what it entails. After viewing this film I did exclaim out loud in the theater to the five people remaining "Dear God! What was that thing,"!

A horrendous script of a movie and equally horrid acting makes this a solution to curing your insomnia.

I love the fact that one of the character claims to have two knives that the Ripper used. She claims they have been authenticated. How is that possible? No one knows who the ripper was. There are up to 24 suspects, a mystery never to be solved. Did Jack send the knives to the police with a secret code at the time so they know he came from him?

An original horror script is asked from a group of writers and what do we get? "Jack the Ripper." Wow , original... How many movies have been focused upon Jack? Too many to write anything original. There is NOTHING original!

What about the sequence in which they are roaming around the building in cut scenes all experiencing or acting out horror and sound track is playing Hall and Oates "She's Gone". What the Hell do those song lyrics have to do with ANYTHING we are viewing? I was flabbergasted at that point.

So instead of viewing this creatively devoid film, watch the movie "Time After Time" which is a fun and wondrous movie pertaining to the Ripper and let this piece garbage rot by the side of the road and find its way into the sewage system.

This is the darkest film (literally) since 'The Beguiled'. I could hardly see what was going on, which was perhaps just as well. My forensic examination of this film? A terrible crime has been committed and it will be an injustice if the makers escape punishment.

It was a film that tried to be clever and did not succeed; a bit like 'Beast of Burden' or 'Anon', but without the star names. The plot is too complicated to follow and too boring to make one bother to try. The action played out ponderously, making this relatively short film feel so much longer, such that the rolling of the end credits was a huge relief .

Set in East London, the film nevertheless has a very American feel to it, including some transatlantic bit-part characters such as the studio boss. Every cliche in the American film book is presented, with pale echoes of Dracula's castle (with strange door keeper), 'Psycho' (daggers minus the shower), 'If' and a Chucky doll for good measure.

An unbelievable initial scenario is presented, to which the characters respond in an unbelievable way. Whilst all fictional film art must require a measure of suspension of belief, this film demanded too much. I still don't understand why the characters didn't leave the building at the very beginning, long before they are given an unlikely-sounding financial incentive to stay. An hour or so later I still didn't understand the ending or why many of the preceding scenes were required in order to lead up to it.

I could offer a spoiler and tell you if any of the characters make it out alive, but I genuinely don't know as the mix of flashback (both historical and more recent), dream and reality is so awkwardly concocted. Just as a witness to a real crime will often struggle to articulate what they have just seen, viewers of this utterly dreadful film will have to decide for themselves what happened and whether it was worth trying to follow.

The production value isn't there, and the actors aren't the best, but it isn't that terrible. I've seen much worse. It's not the most tense of films either, but it has a couple of nice touches. If you don't mind an indie film, or a B-Movie then you could still have a bit of fun.

I thought they did their best to write a decent story about Jack the Ripper, and his knives. They gave a mystical connection to the Ripper and his knives. Which although Jack the Ripper had been done a lot, I thought it was an interesting take on it, with a bit of supernatural lore.

I liked the set up to get the people in the horror film location too. They really tried with the story with this one.

Jack the Ripper has been a rich seam of history, mined for many years by film makers with lesser or greater results. But for every great Ripper film (Murder by Decree) or even mediocre one (From Hell) there are a lot of duds. This is film possibly the dud-est of them all. There are a few very atmospheric moments, but so few that they have no chance of making much impact in the towering banality of this film.

I gave this film 3 stars. Two stars for those atmospheric moments and one star because at least the actors turned up. If I had been them I would've walked off long before the film was finished.

Somewhere, the spirit of Saucy Jack is laughing his cape off to see his legacy is still spreading evil among the people of Britain, even if it's just atrocities on video tape.