There was a time when Johnny Depp did classy movies. What happened?

Rating: 6/10 (31 October 2001)

A half-baked Ripper theory catering to conspiracy nuts, bosomy whores (one a romantic lead), Johnny Depp as the psychic detective whose gimmick is that he has visions while high on absinthe and laudanum, some classy actors like Ian Holm and Robbie Coltrane, lots of cheesy atmospherics and dark, gas-lit London streets--these do not a great movie make, especially when most off it was done considerably better in Murder by Decree some years back. Johnny Depp used to make classy movies. What happened? This one is watchable, though, made barely tolerable by the lead actors.