From Hell
is an infantile (read, "stylish") revamp of the Jack the Ripper saga. It has many things wrong with it. Here are a few:
1) Johnny Depp, the lead Ripper investigator, is a psychic, which comes in handy;
2) The Ripper entices prostitutes with grapes, a neat fact the investigators choose to withhold from potential victims (as well as the fact that the Ripper is an educated man);
3) Heather Graham is about as convincing as a White Chapel prostitute as I might be as the lead in "The Clint Eastwood Story."
4) Every murder (and every autopsy/crime scene) is shown. Each more bloody then the next. This is exhausting and boring.
5) You can see this film in its more straightforward and adult incarnation. It is called "Murder By Decree."
Grade: F.
