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The Ninth Gate (1999)
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The horror of Roman Polanski is not about spectacle and shock but a goose-pimply sense of evil lurking just outside the frame and hidden behind the faces of slightly unsettling characters. For a while it looks like The Ninth Gate, adapted from the novel The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, might recapture the beautiful uneasiness of such masterpieces as Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby. A calm, almost sleepy Johnny Depp plays cynical, unscrupulous rare-book hunter Dean Corso, who's hired by demonologist Boris Balkan (Frank Langella) to authenticate a rare volume that, legend has it, was cowritten by Lucifer...
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| The Ninth Gate Movie Review by Lloyd (7/6/2009) |
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When Roman Polanski does a movie it is going to move you and it will be talked about for days and years to come. This movie is dark, creepy, suspenseful and you can tell that a master is behind the camera. Johnny Depp is the star and is helped along in the movie by the great Frank Langella and Lena Olin. Rent this movie...
(complete The Ninth Gate review by Lloyd)
Arturo Pérez-Reverte is one of my favorite authors, so it is natural that I want to see movies based on his books. I do not compare them, I just enjoy both forms.
This film is an excellent example of the psychological thriller. Don't look for a lot of whiz-bang special effect, although the fire work is excellent. Director...
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| The Ninth Gate Movie Review by Jesse (1/31/2007) |
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This was an interesting film. It was a little too odd for my tastes, but the story was very contagious. It still makes me wonder about the strange plot twists in it and I am trying to figure them out. It's odd because the plot seems very familiar. It's like a mix between The Da Vinci Code, End of Days and Roman Polanski's...
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