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Five years ago, Molly's friends were brutally murdered on
an island. Now, she has started a new life and is studying
to become a profiler. Soon, the nightmare begins again for
poor Molly as it seems as if the killer who's basing his
murders on Jack the Rippers murders (a so called copycat
killer) is back. Will anyone survive this time or is Jack
The Ripper's clone back for good?
Ripper was one of the slashers that came out a bit too late
to benefit from Scream's success. Even so, the movie actually
did pretty good money on DVD and in theatres in Europe.
This however is not one of my favourite 2000s slashers.
The movie tries to be a serial killer thriller even though
it's obviously just another teen slasher flick. None of
the characters are very likable. The killer doesn't wear
a mask (well except for in the first murder) and we only
get to see a hand killing people (like the Italian giallo
flick which we have come to love so much). And even though
the murders are supposedly brutal, all we get is some
pathetic blood splatter and no real gore (Jack the Ripper?
Come on, we should be able to crave more gore than this).
A.J. Cook is without a doubt the best thing about this
movie. She's a very talented actress and even though she
got a terrible character in this flick, she still tries
to do the best of the situation. Derek Hamilton is also
a pretty good actor, unfortunately he doesn't seem too
comfortable playing the snobby rich boy in the movie.
The movie is quite nicely directed and photographed and
it definitely doesn't look like a DTV flick. Some angles
are very original and some of the camerawork is also
very slick and eye-catching.
Some people love this movie, some people hate it, I'm stuck
somewhere in between. It starts out as a pretty good teen
slasher flick but it feels a bit too ambitious and the
ending is a complete mess. I've seen this movie three
times now and I still have a problem figuring out what's
going on in the big climax (well, maybe I'm just stupid).
Either way, Ripper is an all right movie over-all but it
tries too hard to be something more than it really is;
a shameless Scream rip-off which was released a bit too
late to become really famous.
Nothing worth mentioning. There is a lot of blood splatter
but we don't get any decapitations or anything like that.
The pop music is pretty good and so is the techno-rock
music and even though I've never been to a club like the
one in the movie, it looks like a whole lot of fun (I'm
more of a trance guy you know).
Overambitious slasher flick which tries too hard to be
more clever than it really is. The story is pretty weak
and even though it's a cool concept, it doesn't really
work. It's an all right and mildly entertaining slasher
flick, but don't expect anything more from it.
Review By: AnthroFred
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