Movie Title: The Ninth Gate

Movie Title: The Ninth Gate
Rating: 2
Reviewed By: Robin McFetridge

Review:

What could be more ridiculous than the Ninth Gate, directed by Roman Polanski? Times up. . . not much. This dark poorly written thriller was about as entertaining as a wart removal procedure. Yeah, cool to see what happens next with the liquid freeze stuff but then what is left?

We have Johnny Depp as Dean Corso an unethical used book broker. He cons grieving family members out of valuable classic books in estate sales.

Depp finds himself in lethal trouble when he takes on a project from Professor Boris Balkin, played by Frank Langella. First where would a teacher and mayble somewhat slightly successful author get the money he was tossing around? Second if he was going to do all the things he did, why did he need Depp in the first place? Oh because without Depp there would be no movie, so the writer had to work in a reason why a book broker would visit people with a particular if all Balkin was going to do was kill them anyway and steal the pages he wanted.

The story was more than predictable it was simple and had to many loose ends and did not hold water. Even the most imaginative person would not believe this plot.

I couldn't wait for the film to end. By the time we get to the so-called climatic ending you don't really care what happens and you feel they deserved it anyway. It was all so stupid Balkin deserves his fate and Depp doesn't learn a single thing from his ordeals. We viewers can care less about the outcome and the writer obviously didn't care either.

I give Ninth Gate a two on the About-Movies couch rating system, only because a lot of people die. What would have been even better is if we could have seen these people actually die, that would have been kewl.