A poor adaption of great source material

Rating: 4/10 (9 September 2002)

I watched From Hell as a preview at my local cinema a while back. I thought it was an above average thriller that had a few problems in the story and casting areas (Heather Graham as an Irish prostitute somehow just doesn't convince me, maybe because she didn't have a spec of dirt on her or a decent accent). Afterwards I got around to reading the Alan Moore + Eddie Campbell brilliant graphic novel and realised that as an adaptation of that story, this film is really awful. Just because comics are words and pictures, doesn't mean they're all going to work as movies. I hope that Don Murphy, the guy behind this effort, can make a better job of the forthcoming 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'.