Nonureva
Really Surprised!
Fairaher
The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Neive Bellamy
Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
birgit_schuette
Maybe it's because I love this style, but I absolutely loved this. It's well-written, visually stunning, great acting, and a great murder mystery set in dark Victorian London. What's not to like?
caseyrita2004
Called the ending within the first 15 minutes.Overall it was decent enough, however if you watch murder mysteries any bit normally than you will easily be able to guess the killer from very early on in the movie. Acting was good.
kitellis-98121
This film is exquisitely well-made, with fantastic Production Design (sets) and highly stylised and theatrical Cinematography (lighting) that together create one of the most eerie and evocative visions of Victorian London that I've seen, being somehow both realistic and dreamlike in equal measure.The wardrobe is also of unusually fine quality, with not a single garment seeming to have originated at Angel's Costumers (though doubtless some did), as no part of this film looked or felt like a BBC costume-drama.The music was also fittingly atmospheric, and I'm assuming kept itself appropriately in the background, as I can't seem to hear any of it echoing in my brain minutes after seeing the film, despite having been drawn-in while watching.So technically it didn't disappoint. But sadly that's where my praise must end.I found the screenplay to be an undisciplined mess. The dialogue was alright, per se, but it was as heavy-handed as the plotting, which I assume is a hangover from the original novel, and the structuring was all over the place. It felt like the editor was having a hard time cutting the film, and I imagine a lot of that was due to the unnecessary ponderousness of the script.There needed to be much tighter writing and editing for this film to work, either in terms of entertainment or as a mystery. (I fully and accurately anticipated the ending within 20 minutes of the film starting - as did most of the reviewers on Netflix, from what I've just been reading!)The weak script, and also weak Direction, trickled down to the performances of the talented cast, who in the absence of a strong directorial hand, either over-played or under-played their roles, making the net result uneven and occasionally amateurish.But despite its many flaws, as one Netflix reviewer pointed out, "It's better than 'From Hell' starring Johnny Depp!"
Paul Magne Haakonsen
The story told in this movie was a little bit confusing, and at times I was sort of lost as to whom was really the killer, which I suppose was a good achievement on the writers account. But it was just a tad too confusing and wobbly for me.The acting in the movie was phenomenal, and the cast ensemble had some really impressive names with amazing performances. There were some pretty nice performances by Bill Nighy and Olivia Cooke in particular.The setting of "The Limehouse Golem" and the atmosphere was simply amazing, which really helped to bring the movie to life on the screen. They really managed to capture the atmosphere of the era quite nicely, both in costumes, speech, props and sets.The movie felt a bit too long perhaps, because the storyline was a bit too rambling for my personal preference. Plus I had no idea what the movie was about prior to sitting down to watch it, and with the word golem in the title I had expected something more in the likes of "Frankenstein".However, all in all, "The Limehouse Golem" was an entertaining movie, especially if you enjoy movies that does not present the storyline on a platter and where you have to keep an alert eye and be aware of all that is going on.
