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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 Ben  (7/22/2007) |
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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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