One word......BRILLIANT. Jack the Ripper + Love Story entwined...... starring Johhny Depp and Heather Graham. Cant believe how little this movie is known but how incredibly good it is.

[B]8.5/10[/B] (Maybe a 8.75)

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yes! i loved this movie too

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^ It is a nice movie indeed; however I didn't like how they portrayed the image of the freemasons. That was totally twisted and misplaced (imo)

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how so?

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Well they were depicted as the "queen's instrument" in her decision to solve the pregnancy situation of the prostitute, wich newborn would have been heir to the thrown.

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oh, i didnt get that deep into it.. just enjoyed it for what it was without nit picking the historical discrepencies, lol ;)

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[QUOTE=Shiva;657175]Well they were depicted as the "queen's instrument" in her decision to solve the pregnancy situation of the prostitute, wich newborn would have been heir to the thrown.[/QUOTE]

I dont think thats what it was, that sect seemed like they had nothing to do being the "queen's instrument". the old doctor, who was a die hard freemason, felt the responsibility to take the cleansing into his own hands. Thats why he was tried by the freemason jury and turned into a vegetable.

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The trial was a theater: it had been arranged in order to dispose of the "weapon/evidence" (the doctor in this case).

They/she used the doctor for Her end, and they disposed of him afterwards in a subtle way, a masonic court!

Yep, someone had to take the blame, for a blue blood's mistake (or will), after all.

Donno, I didnt digest the way they "fomulated" the role of the masons in this....

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I can understand her using the "masons" to get rid of the child / wife but why the killing, afaik that old doc lost his loons

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Yes, this is the aspect of the story I didn't like... link a murder to a mason, doesn't fit... I question a lot the authenticity of the facts the way they are shown...

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hahaha, you must be a pain in the arse to watch a movie with :)

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Well this is a "delicate" subject to me..and I comment :p

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[QUOTE=Shiva;657372]Yes, this is the aspect of the story I didn't like... link a murder to a mason, doesn't fit... I question a lot the authenticity of the facts the way they are shown...[/QUOTE]

I dont think this was made to be a true story. They never did find the real Jack the Ripper

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^^^^ that

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this is actually based from the Alan Moore graphic novel of the same name. You know the baddass author of V for Vendetta and Watchmen, etc...

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this flick was awesome.

really weird twist with corrupt masonry and the elephantitis dude. very allusory. 5/5