WATCH "MURDER BY DECREE" INSTEAD

Rating: 5/10 (22 September 2002)

I was looking forward to this film having researched the Ripper for a number of years. It's not a bad film..........but its not a good one either. Johnny Depp is great as always but the story is so flawed that it holds no suspense at all.
SPOILERS
The whole crux of the story, i.e. Prince Albert marrying and having a child with a catholic is rubbish. For starters, Annie Crook was NOT a catholic and the marriage was not legal as the Prince would have required the permission of the Queen to wed so that knocks that one on the head.
Not sure what the previous reviewers meant about victims dying in the wrong order. They all died as they did in 1888.
Notwithstanding all that, the sets are one of the films strong points as are Depp and Coltrane. The prostitutes nearly look as bad as they should - except of course for Kelly!
Like I said catch "Murder By Decree" (1979) with Christopher Plummer as Sherlock Holmes on Jack's trail instead....................