Taking Lives - Director's Cut (Widescreen Edition)
by D.J. Caruso
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Actor: Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Gena Rowlands, Kiefer Sutherland, Olivier MartinezDirector: D.J. Caruso
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-08-17
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Taking Lives - Director's Cut (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: So-so serial killer thriller
Summary: 3 Stars
"Taking Lives" had a lot of potential. You've got an interesting story. FBI Profiler, Illeana Scott (Angelina Jolie) is a stranger in a strange land, Montreal Canada. She's been sent there to help track down a serial killer who assumes the lives of the people he's killed and thus becomes pretty untraceable. In the process, she falls for the only witness Art Dealer Costa (Ethan Hawke) who was the only witness to the first crime.
The film offers some serious action and interesting twists, but nothing you wouldn't see on television save for a pretty steamy scene between Scott and Costa which earns the film its R-rating.
The problem is, the film's slow and not quite believable on several levels. It is great if you are a serious fan of either Hawke or Jolie.
Rebecca Kyle, October 2008
Summary of Taking Lives - Director's Cut (Widescreen Edition)
A psychological thriller Taking Lives is the story of an FBI agent who becomes involved with her key witness while tracking a prolific serial killer who assumes the lives and identities of the people he kills. She finds herself surrounded by numerous suspects and no one to trust.Running Time: 103 min.System Requirements:Running Time 106 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS Rating:?UNRATED UPC:?012569431829 Manufacturer No:?4318While it doesn't rank with such grim classics as The Silence of the Lambs and Seven, D.J. Caruso's Taking Lives offers similarly heavy atmosphere, beginning well before fizzling into absurdity. Freely adapted from the novel by Michael Pye, and set in Montreal (although it was filmed in Quebec City), the plot trades in several familiar tropes of the serial-killer genre, beginning with the FBI agent (Angelina Jolie) who brings her unique skills (and brooding, low-key demeanor) to the vexing case of a killer who, out of apparent self-loathing, steals the identities of his victims and lives their lives until it's time for the next gruesome murder. Ethan Hawke plays the killer's alleged next victim, and in a film filled with twists that grow increasingly unconvincing, Keifer Sutherland is menacingly cast as a shifty suspect. Caruso's previous film was the creepy drug thriller The Salton Sea, so he's well-qualified to infuse Taking Lives with a darkly stylish sense of dread and at least one good shock to keep your adrenaline flowing. The second half essentially betrays the promise of the first, but there's enough going on to hold your interest to the end. --Jeff Shannon
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