The beauty crudeness and true story of Jack the ripper

Rating: 7/10 (10 January 2002)

The Hughes brothers have really surprised me whit this small masterpiece.
Jack the ripper I think is the most famous serial killer ever known in the history of murderers. This excellent film recreates a poor Victorian London area: Whitechapel with a detail precision that only a genius good do. The story is known but in this film there is an interesting side story, which is the personality of the commissar, giantly acted by Johnny Depp, and also the prostitutes environment with the Royal complot and the role of the masonry which enhance the interest of this film. The noisy and scary sound track fits just perfect with all the scenes and with the disturbed mind of a "junky" commissar who has "shining" experiences under the opium effect that help to solve the case.
Rating: 7/10