Ninth Gate

Pros: Some nice photography of New York, Spain, Portugal and France in winter.
Cons: This dreadful, slow comic book yarn would not have satisfied a 1940's B-Movie Producer.

Satanism has become as pervasive an interest in our Society as Evangelical Christianity, the Stock Market, or Serial Killing. Our films, our comics and popular music, are full of references to the Devil and horrible events. We, as well as our news...

Pros: Johnny Depp's performance, exciting and authentic atmosphere.
Cons: Nothing!

The Ninth gate is just one of the many "supernatural" thrillers produced in the past couple of years ...

Pros: beautiful photography, locations; interesting subject matter
Cons: the ending will leave you frustrated and annoyed... even MAD

This starts out as a promising movie -- an interesting thriller about the paranormal -- and you are quickly drawn into the story by the display of all the dark mystery that is suggested by the luscious display of forbidden inculabula. The Gothic settings...

Pros: very funny
Cons: very funny

The credits sweep over our heads in three-dimension; the music seems dreamy and morose -- like someone drowning. A promising opening. (Mental note: stop allowing opening credits to build hope in the rest of the movie. You keep getting...

Pros: concept is enticing
Cons: characters lack depth

It was a cold & rainy day today so what better way to spend it while the kids are in school, than to check out the Direct TV previews for a movie to rent.

Maybe MAGNOLIA I love Tom Cruise...no, it looks too 'AMERICAN BEAUTY-ish'. How...

Pros: a hearty laugh indeed
Cons: a really really bad movie

I was warned before I decided to watch _The Ninth Gate_ that the main thing it had going for it was sheer kamp value; thus I was not too sharply disappointed by Roman Polanski's descent into... I think hell is the best way to put it.
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Pros: a few brilliant scenes
Cons: the rest of the movie

Johnny Depp has consistently been one of the most interesting actors of our age. Whether playing Gilbert Grape, Edward Scissorhands or Don Juan De Marco, he has demonstrated that he is capable of creating characters of intelligence and depth. Likewise,...

Pros: Terrific story line.
Cons: No tension, bad editing.

Roman Polanski’s first film to be released in six years (since “Death and the Maiden” in 1994) brings the director back to familiar territory. Between the time Mr. Polanski scared the bejeezis out of audiences in 1968 with “Rosemary’s Baby”, and his...

Pros: Roman Polanski
Cons: Roman Polanski

THE NINTH GATE, the first film in many years by noted director Roman Polanski, makes it seem like he never left. Fifteen minutes into his new occult thriller about deception and the Devil, THE NINTH GATE has already shown itself to be a perfect primer on...

Pros: funny wheelchair scene
Cons: old plot, kinda boring

I went into the ninth gate because I thought there would be SEVENDUST music. My friends and I came out a bit perplexed, our guts slightly busted from laughing heartily during a few scenes, and just a tad interested in the entire story.

The...

Pros: Promotes hatred of the French
Cons: Decade of Johnny Depp's goodwill gone to seed

Now this one seemed like a no-brainer for me & my better half. We love horror movies; we love the magnificent films Roman Polanski created earlier in his career; and we both love Johnny Depp. I’m a little wary about confessing my love for another man...

Pros: You like Satan?
Cons: Slow, slower, slowest. Waste of time except for hard-core Depp fans.

You like books? Well then read one and avoid this 2 hour debacle about books. Major points in the plot involve finding pieces of paper. I'm not kidding. That's why I said above that this review "reveals everything about the movie's plot"...

Pros: good crisp editing
Cons: everything else seemed not quite fleshed out

Dear Mr Polanski
I just watched what I can only assume is a mistakenly released rough version of your most recent film, The Ninth Gate. Perhaps film piracy extends to Blockbuster video store releases.
I should say this rough version I...

Pros: Ever seen a dead woman in an electric wheel chair?
Cons: the parts between the opening and closing credits

The only people who will enjoy Roman Polanski's new movie (I loathe to use the word FILM in connection with the man) are devotees of America's most celebrated "expatriate" or those suffering from sever head trauma. In the Ninth Gate, Johnny...

Pros: interesting cinematography
Cons: bad plot, flat characters, unsatisfying end

I can sum up the experience of watching Johnny Depp's new movie, The Ninth Gate, with one word: Hell. Based on the novel "El Club Dumas" by Spanish author Arturo Pérez Reverte and directed by exiled pedophile Roman Polanski, The Ninth Gate...