Enjoyable but already done before

Rating: Null/10 (4 June 2002)

I've read a lot of negative comments about "From Hell". I guess they were expecting a lot more bloodletting then they received. I haven't seen any of the other Hughes Brothers films so I'm going to have to leave those comments alone.
What the Hughes brothers did was to recreate (at least on film) the atmosphere of the Whitechappel District of London, UK. Having once taken the "Jack the Ripper" tour of Whitechappel their film agreed pretty much with what I was told.
The overall acting was pretty good. Johnny Depp did his usual job of performing on the stage much like he did in "Ed Woods" and other films. Heather Graham and the others made for great window dressing.
I won't get into the other details of the film except to say that it reminded me of a much earlier film which starred Christopher Plummer as Sherlock Holmes and James Mason as Dr. Watson. It was called "Murder By Decree" and it came to pretty much the same conclusions as "From Hell": the Royal Physician did it with the help of the Masons. I missed the Holmes and Watson interplay in THIS film.