Good premise...Not-so good outcome.

Rating: Null/10 (26 July 2002)

This film adaptation by the Hughes Brothers, though cinematically stylish and darkly brooding, runs immediately into predictable territory within the first 10 minutes. The casting itself is passable with Heather Graham, and Depp and Holm have good chemistry together; however, the only truly believable characters were the whores themselves...disgusting, pathetic, derelicts of society who use their womanhood as their livelihood- constantly striving for absolution from their sentences to poverty, and only receiving it in horrific deaths.
Overall, it's too much of a "whodunit" pipe-dream. Ol' Jack would have turned his nose up at a tale that is so uninspired.