Perfect crime/mystery historical recreation all the way.

Rating: 10/10 (3 May 2001)

If you are a crime/mystery story lover, than this is the movie for you. The movie tagline `Heads will roll' may seem a little excessive and may suggest a movie full of gore. Truth is that this movie is essentially a 혩detective story' where everyone is a suspect, and the gore part come as a complement, it is just the style of the killer, who kills his victims the way he was killed, fast and painless. Constable Ichabod Crane, from a NYC in the late 18th century, is given the mission of investigating a group of homicides said to be committed by an headless horseman. These crimes are taking place at the small town of Sleepy Hollow. As soon as Ichabod Crane arrives at Sleepy Hollow, he is told the story of the headless horseman, and how did he lost his head. For those who haven't seen the movie, the mystery may seem to be the real identity of the horseman, but it isn't, the mystery relies on who controls the horseman by keeping his head (as the horseman's identity is revealed in the beginning). As crimes happen, we discover that the horseman doesn't kill by random, he kills those that the very person who keeps his head demands him. Says detective's prime rule 혩everyone is a suspect, and consequently the guilty is the less evident' Sleepy Hollow, fulfils this rule completely, furthermore, all those details seen throughout the film, have a certain explanation that is revealed at the end. Tim Burton once more share with us his most comprising view of the script and he makes us feel that we are really there and we are part of the story. Andrew Kevin Walker (Se7en) writes a beautiful horror/romance fairy tale with Christina Ricci as its princess and Johnny Depp as her knight. Movies like this one, with this crew are to come!
I rate it ------- 8/ 10