Rotten
The cast works hard to make you believe they believe what the screenwriter tells them to believe. But in the end, it all seems contrived and silly.
Rex Reed, New York Observer
The Lodger
Everyone is suspect.
2009 · 1h 35m · R
Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
David Ondaatje
Overview
Follows a seasoned detective on the trail of a ruthless killer intent on slaughtering prostitutes along West Hollywood's Sunset Strip. It appears that the murderer's grisly methods are identical to that of London's infamous 19th century psychopath Jack the Ripper – a relentless serial killer who was never caught by police. To make matters worse, the detective soon notices the parallels between the crimes committed by the West Hollywood stalker and those of a serial murderer incarcerated years ago. Could the wrong man be behind bars?
Director and cast
- David Ondaatje Director
- Alfred Molina as Chandler Manning
- Hope Davis as Ellen Bunting
- Shane West as Street Wilkenson
- Donal Logue as Bunting
- Philip Baker Hall as Captain Smith
- Rachael Leigh Cook as Amanda
- Rebecca Pidgeon as Dr. Jessica Westmin
- Simon Baker as Malcolm
- François Chau as Sam
- Mel Harris as Margaret
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
24%
Tomatometer
Rotten
This strained, empty effort doesn't work as homage or update, and in its darkly violent sensibility has neither the glamour of Brian De Palma's referential nightmares or even the narrative fuel of the serial-killer-obsessed procedurals that dominate tv.
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
Filled with second-rate Brian DePalma twists, noirishly blurred lights and usually solid actors mouthing potboiler brine, The Lodger resembles bottom-shelf '80s dreck.
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News
Rotten
A good cast can't save The Lodger, the utterly wrongheaded fourth movie version of a 1910 novel inspired by Jack the Ripper that was most famously filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1926.
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Rotten
What needed to be a taut, structurally sound psychothriller instead malfunctions from the start.
John Anderson, Variety
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