Fresh
Basically a well-researched but formulaic mystery centered on one of those nyah-nyah serial killers we've seen a thousand times.
Rafer Guzman, Newsday
The Raven
The only one who can stop a serial killer is the man who inspired him.
2012 · 1h 51m · R
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
James McTeigue
Overview
A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.
Director and cast
- James McTeigue Director
- John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe
- Luke Evans as Detective Emmett Fields
- Alice Eve as Emily
- Brendan Gleeson as Colonel Hamilton
- Kevin McNally as Maddux
- Oliver Jackson-Cohen as John Cantrell
- Jimmy Yuill as Captain Eldridge
- Pam Ferris as Mrs. Bradley
- Brendan Coyle as Reagan
- Dave Legeno as Percy
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
22%
Tomatometer
Rotten
It lingers intolerably on some inessential scenes, rushes through others, and fails to provide any motivation either for Poe's devoted (albeit fictional) love, or the film's archvillain.
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
Rotten
Never commits to the kind of full-bore lunacy that might have made the film a campy pleasure.
Eric D. Snider, Film.com
Rotten
The subject matter screams out for cleverness and depth, the sort of mind-bending twists and satisfying darkness that Poe himself would love. It finds them only in small doses.
John Wenzel, Denver Post
Rotten
Director James McTeigue has no feel for humor or terror, making what could have been a witty pastiche into another cheesy slice-and-dice horror flick.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
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