The Ninth Gate
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Movie Reviews of The Ninth Gate
Movie Review: waste of time
Summary: 2 Stars
I reeeeaaaally wanted to like this movie. Yes, the opening credits were good. The movie itself, however, was utterly pointless and nonsensical...and yes, boring. Even the actors looked like they weren't taking it seriously. I'm convinced Polanski only made this film as a showcase for his wife ("the girl")...
Blech. Need some brain soap now.
Movie Review: I want those two hours back!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
Okay - I hardly ever bother with a bad review. Since I'm an amateur reviewer I'm not required to see every film, read every book and since time is at a premium I try not to see bad films, read bad books, etc. But I wasted more than two hours on this insultingly bad movie, and I wish I had my time back.
I was watching one of the movie channels. This film, which I previously knew nothing about, started. The credits rolled. Directed by Roman Polanski... good, good - the guy who directed "Chinatown". There's Johnny Depp - great, I like Johnny Depp and all the women at my house aren't going to complain about watching a Johnny Depp movie. There's Frank Langella - good, I liked him ever since his version of Dracula with Olivier.
The movie started off okay, drawing me in with an intriguing story and these compelling actors. Depp plays Dean Corso, a rare book dealer. Langella plays Boris Balkan, a rich book collector who wants Corso to track down a rare satanic book. By thirty minutes into the movie I was hooked.
Thirty minutes later I thought "well, THIS is sure getting boring." Thirty minutes after that I thought "this is really getting bad and stupid." Thirty minutes after THAT I thought "this ending is really shaping up to be bad, but I've invested over an hour and a half in this movie and it is bad almost in a train-wreck kind of way.
Then it got REALLY bad. At the end I sat in the room feeling "I've been HAD! My time has been STOLEN from me. I can't believe I sat and watched that. I can't believe THOSE actors and THAT director could have made something so bad.
I felt so burned I looked up other reviews. Roger Ebert wrote that it "opens with a spectacularly good title sequence and goes downhill from there--but slowly, so that all through the first hour there is reason for hope, and only gradually do we realize the movie isn't going to pay off." Berardinelli of Reelviews was less kind: "The Ninth Gate has two modes: tedious and moronic, with the two not being mutually exclusive. Then, one-hundred minutes into this seemingly interminable movie (which clocks in at about 2:10), things take a turn for the worse and The Ninth Gate spirals out of control. A jaw-droppingly bad mixture of film noir and the occult, this picture plods and meanders its way through one uninspired scene after another until it reaches an improbable, laughable climax followed by an equally ridiculous denouement. Only the lobotomized and the brain dead will be able to figure out the logic embraced by The Ninth Gate."
Consider yourself warned.
Movie Review: Too bad, too long
Summary: 1 Stars
The americans living in europe decided to make a "hollywood" movie, using talent and landscape from europe. If the landscape is great, the rest is significantly challenged. The story is weak and can only be followed by those that have attended "witchcraft school". In short, it is too bad for tool long. Save yourself some bucks and find other movies about the topic that you can actually enjoy. As it is, it was just a way for Johnny to stay at home with the wife and kids.Movie Review: I WANTED to like it!
Summary: 1 Stars
I wanted to like it--really I did--but after watching to the end it was like eating a Twinkie when I was promised a full gourmet meal. I'm still hungry and I feel kinda sick. It's a waste of many (otherwise) talented people.Movie Review: damaged when opened
Summary: 1 Stars
The movie looked like it was fine, but when I played it made this horrendous noise and started vibrating. I am going to exchange it , but I will be getting another copy of it. I love this movie!