Revenge and salvation; a close shave away.

Rating: 6/10 (1 April 2008)

Tim Burton's dark adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical stars Johnny Depp as the titular character Sweeney Todd. Todd is a wronged man and is obsessed with revenge for consequences suffered by his wife and daughter while he was away in prison. He returns and reopens his barber shop and "shaves the heads of gentleman never seen again." His accomplice in crime is the over amorous Mrs. Lovett(Helena Bonham Carter), who makes meat pies out Sweeney's victims. Judge Turpin(Alan Rickman),who sent Sweeney to prison, is the prime target for the deepest cut of them all. Depp is guilty of capturing your imagination and attention. Others in the cast: Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ed Sanders and Jayne Wisener.