How long have you been chasing the dragon, Inspector?

Rating: 7/10 (9 May 2010)

There is no shortage of theories on Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel murders in 188. This is another and takes it's place in the annals of a crime that will likely never be solved.
Johnny Depp is magnificent as a drug-addicted Inspector Frederick Abberline, who is charged with solving the murders. But isn't Depp always magnificent? Of course, the powers that be do not want him to solve the murders as it is one of their own
This is a dark film, as any on the subject of the Ripper should be, but it has a fine collection of actors making it enjoyable. Terry Hayes and Rafael Yglesias wrote a great screenplay, and direction by the Hughes brothers, Albert and Allen, is spot on.