Taking Lives

2004 - ENGLISH - MOVIE

Crime Mystery Thriller

The film starts in the early 1980s. Young Martin Asher took a bus for Canada. He meets another teen on the bus, Matt Soulsby. When the bus broke down they decided to rent a car and drive to Seattle. On the road the car gets a flat tire, and Matt starts changing the tire. Martin comments on how he and Matt are about the same height, and in that moment he quickly pushes Matt in the way of an oncoming truck causing a huge accident where Matt and the driver both die. He took Matt s guitar and left singing like Matt did. Twenty years later, an FBI profiler, Illeana Scott comes to Canada to help hunt down the now serial killer Martin Asher who killed multiple men and lived by their identities. Martin s mother claims that she saw Martin in Quebec city and she tells the police that Martin is evil. The police also has an eyewitness James Costa who saw Asher kill his last victim.. Written by victoria Taking Lives is a 2004 American English-language Crime Mystery motion picture starring Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland, Olivier Martinez, Tch Ky Karyo, Jean-hugues Anglade and Lois Dellar. The movie is based on Taking Lives by Michael Pye. Village Roadshow Pictures in association with Atmosphere Pictures. were the production houses involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Mark Canton and Bernie Goldman. Taking Lives is written by Jon Bokenkamp and directed by D. J. Caruso. Warner Bros. Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the movie. Taking Lives was released on 19th March 2004 in English and French languages and takes a screen time of 103 minutes. The Film was successful at box office. Taking Lives was made on a budget of $45 million and it was a hit at box office gross of $65 million. Cinematography was done by Amir Mokri and editing by Anne V. Coates. The music was composed by Philip Glass.
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amusing predictable psychological preposterous effective
  • Jini Score
    5.7/10
  • Critics Score
    27%
  • Rating
    6.2/10
  • Jini Score
    5.7%
  • Critics Score
    27
  • Rating
    6.2
negative

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Release Date19 MAR 2004
Budget$ 45 MILLION
Language

English, French

Genre

Crime , Mystery , Thriller

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Taking Lives Reviews and Ratings

Average Review Rating : negative

43.64%

Positive Review Rating : 27%

27%
    • Roger Ebert

      Taking Lives is actually an effective thriller, on its modest but stylish level. ( Read More )
    • Joe McGovern

      Theres a reason why the poster for Taking Lives is better than the movie itself those lips aint made for talking. ( Read More )
    • Marrit Ingman

      Producers are hoping theyll find a film that people will go see just because they want to look at HER, regardless of what shes doing. ( Read More )
    • Frank Swietek

      A serial killer tracked by female detective movie so preposterously contrived that by rights it should star Ashley Judd...more likely to evoke snickers than gasps. ( Read More )
    • Mike Clark

      From the opening credits, Lives seems bound to recapture the queasy mood of 1995s Seven. But its too dull to even pull off quease until a notably unpleasant climax. ( Read More )
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