What the hell (TV)

Rating: 1/10 (12 May 2010)

I watched it on screen at its release and remember having troubles to follow the story and explain the motive behind the murders.
Now, I decided to have a second look because I just finished to read the big comics of Moore and Campbell. And I realized how this movie sucks!
It's absolutely not an adaptation of the comics but a failed variation on it. So exit some brilliant ideas (the mystic London, the ingenious plot, the royal family scandal, the scapegoat, the false clairvoyant, ...) and welcome stupid innovations (the stoned detective, the Spanish doctor, ). I am sure that if they could, they would have changed London for New York and replaced the ripper by a butcher!
Now, the beginning of the movie and the murders appear more stupid than my first viewing!
In addition, the sets look cheap and really pasteboard and the cast is really funny: all the hookers are ugly except Heather Graham who wears a ridiculous red hairstyle! I understand why Johnny Deep needs to shoot opium and why Moore feels betrayed by Hollywood!