Joe Lipsett Murder Made Fiction Podcast - Bloody Disgusting Mar 31, 2026 3.5/5

Too long by far and the accent work from Depp and Graham is questionable, but as an adaptation of Moore's comic and a text that considers the lives of Whitechapel sex workers, it's not bad

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Eddie Harrison film-authority.com Mar 5, 2021 4/5

...a terrific, literate and genuinely scary thriller to savour...

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Joanne Laurier World Socialist Web Site Mar 5, 2021

That the poor are simply portrayed as being feasted upon by the rich, indicates a disorientation and tells us something about the ideological difficulties of our own time.

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Scott B. IGN Oct 18, 2018 2.5/10

It's just not a very good movie.

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Maitland McDonagh TV Guide Jul 9, 2012 3/4

Every generation gets the Ripper who best fulfills its fantasies, and ours fatten on vast conspiracies.

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Sarah Wenk Common Sense Media Jan 2, 2011 3/5

Gruesome, predictable Jack the Ripper retelling.

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Film4 Staff Film4 Jul 16, 2010 3/5

Moore might not be merrier, but this is far from offal.

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Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed Apr 29, 2009 1/4

The problem with this film is that Jack the Ripper takes a backseat to the dull and terrible romance between Depp's policeman character and Heather Graham's prostitute character.

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Stacie Hougland Hollywood.com Nov 20, 2008 3/5

See it for the stunning visuals and Depp's performance rather than a factual re-telling -- if you can stomach it.

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Derek Elley Variety Jul 29, 2008

Anyone expecting the combo of Allen and Albert Hughes and the famed Victorian serial-killer to result in a gritty, stygian, skin-crawling horror movie will be severely disappointed

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Rob Gonsalves Rob's Movie Vault Feb 13, 2008 B+

Somehow, the movie taps into the book's uncanny implication that the very air is charged with malevolent ancient spirits...

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Joe Lozito Big Picture Big Sound Jul 14, 2007 3/4

Without a script on which to hang their vision, the brothers can only technically succeed. And, for better or worse, they do.

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Jason Gorber Film Scouts Jun 21, 2007 C-

This is a film that should probably go back where it came from.

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Lisa Alspector Chicago Reader Apr 18, 2007

This wry, atmospheric procedural spawned by a real mystery would be thorny enough without also being an adaptation.

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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Jan 2, 2007 C

A disappointingly conventional thriller from the Hughes brothers (Menace II Society still their best film by far), neither chilling enough as a horror flick nor compelling as a character study; one of Johnny Depp's few mediocre performances

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Kim Newman Empire Magazine Dec 30, 2006 4/5

A rare, clever, horror film.

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Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid May 26, 2006 3/4

Jack the Ripper has proven a far more durable movie baddie than Freddy, Jason and Hannibal combined.

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Scott Nash Three Movie Buffs Sep 30, 2005 1/4

This movie is beautiful to look at, but has little substance. All Depp and no depth.

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Jeffrey Overstreet JeffreyOverstreet.com (Ghost.io) Jan 15, 2005 D

They want it to feel like one really bad dream ... and by the film's end we're too dizzy to think, to see if it all lines up.

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Jordan Hiller Bangitout.com Dec 7, 2004 3

What the Hughes Brothers have done in making a lavish period piece complete ...... is nothing less than a revolutionary achievement.

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