Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Abbigail Bush what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Leofwine_draca This faithful retelling of the Ripper story manages to evoke the reality of the period in which it is set better than any other Ripper film which has been made. The grimy streets of Whitechapel, the harsh candlelight, and the stark violence which seems to only be brimming at the surface of every person on the street (thugs don't think twice about attacking people with knives) really make this film feel like an authentic piece. The directors went on to cleverly and accurately evoke another period, that of 19th century Edinburgh, in their next film, THE FLESH AND THE FIENDS.The cast go through their paces with relish, and the only actor feeling out of place is the annoyingly American lead. The cockney accents are spot on, and it's fun to spot some British television actors dotted about in the cast (including John Le Mesurier). There are plenty of red herrings to keep you guessing right to the end, where the murderer's unmasking is both unexpected and exciting. The famous finale involves the film flashing into colour to show some blood bubbling up from under floorboards as the murderer is crushed at the bottom of the lift shaft - not a nice way to go, it has to be said.The murder scenes are inventive and brutal, without actually being gory. The film plays on the viewer's imagination to depict the hideous acts, so you actually think you've seen a lot more than was shown. The way the killer asks every woman "Are you Mary Clarke?" in a growling, guttural voice is unnerving. Moments like the can-can dance help to add to the feel of the piece, and there is plenty of intrigue among the assorted characters, respectables and low-lifes, to enjoy. There's even a deformed, hunchbacked assistant thrown in for good measure - needless to say, he's an obvious red herring. JACK THE RIPPER is a well-made, well-acted film, solid viewing from what many people think of as the golden era of British horror.

malcolmgsw In the 50s and 60s British film producers made 2 versions of their films.One the version that would be shown in UK cinemas and the other for more broadminded tastes the other side of the channel.So about half way through the film in the music hall the dancers have just finished the can can.They go back to their dressing room.They start talking in French ,with English subtitles,and all the dancers are undressed.This goes on for the next 5 minutes or so till the next murder.I have often pondered what happened to the continental versions and here some enterprising soul has cut the relevant scenes into the film.It certainly livens it up as it is not one of the better Ripper films,since it deals with it as a who dunnit.The final scenes with the lift though are the most effective part of the film.

Robert J. Maxwell Jack the Ripper stories are always rather fun. Historically, Saucy Jack killed (and mutilated in varying degrees) five known whores in Victorian England. They must have been easy prey, down and outers with bad teeth, alcohol problems, and no place to sleep. Then, too, the murders were never solved, so movie makers can dream up all kinds of plots to explain the heinous goings on. It was an actor. Or it was some mysterious lodger. Or it was Queen Victoria's psychopathic relative. Or it was Victoria herself in drag.This film endorses the common belief that the Ripper was a man of medical knowledge. (It's a lot of horse hockey. It's like the speculation that Son of Sam was a draftsman or architect because his printing was neat.) In fact, Jack is a surgeon here -- Ewan Solon, as the mythical chief surgeon of some equally mythical hospital. John Le Mesurier provides a red herring as another surgeon, an edgy one, perhaps too fond of his niece, played by Betty McDowall. Assorted other characters provide color and texture to an interesting movie that offers the viewer a satisfactory climax in which Jack the Surgeon gets squashed in the shaft beneath an elevator descending to the morgue."We know who it was but we can never prove it," concludes the requisite police inspector, Eddie Byrne. Wouldn't it be pretty to think so.It's fairly well done. The cobblestoned back streets of Whitechapel are effectively represented. The performances are all good, especially Solon's, and the characters well portrayed, except for the visiting American detective, Lee Patterson with his Elvis Presley do, put into the script presumably to appeal to American audiences.Not bad, if not exactly original or surprising in any way.

dbdumonteil The part of the American sleuth ,Sam Lowry ,is absolutely pointless:he seems to be here just to provide the screenplay with a bland love interest.Aside from that,this low-budget flick is watchable ,if not particularly memorable.The atmosphere of the foggy streets of London is just what you expect from the subject.There are some relevant lines from the heroine who says that if these crimes took place in the chic parts of the city,the Police would already have caught the murderer.Like in other versions,the government does not seem to care ,but here the "explanation" is not "political"