CinemaNow - Rent Movies Online

Taking Lives , starring Angelina Jolie, Kiefer Sutherland, and Ethan Hawke, is a third film receiving mostly applause -- if not high praise -- from critics. Megan Lehmann in the New York Post describes it as a smarter than your average serial-killer movie, thanks to unusually fleshed-out characters inhabited by a high- pedigree cast. Stephen Cole in the Toronto Globe and Mail comments slyly: The latest Ashley Judd movie, Taking Lives, is full of surprises. Best of all, it doesn't star Ashley Judd, who has made a wearying specialty out of playing tough-tender female cops. Danger-prone Angelina Jolie is on the case here -- an improvement that pays big dividends throughout. But A.O. Scott in the New York Times lifts the left-handed compliment to cogent literacy by remarking: From a technical standpoint, Taking Lives is competent and sometimes even impressive. It is cleanly edited and nicely shot -- at times as cool and rich as a York Peppermint Pattie. Beyond that, there is not much to say. Those smashed-up corpses -- they sure are gruesome. That Angelina Jolie -- she sure has some pair of lips. That Kiefer Sutherland -- he sure can be creepy. That Ethan Hawke -- he sure is in this movie. To be sure, the film is receiving a fair share of negative comments as well. Manohla Dargis in the Los Angeles Times, for example, observes that Angelina Jolie has again starred in another stinker.