directed by The Hughes Brothers
Recently, we’ve lost Sir Ian Holm, a wonderful English actor. Most of you may remember him from “The Lord of the Rings” where he played Bilbo Baggins. However, I’m not going to write about LOTR because of two reasons. First, I guess almost everyone reading this know exactly what LOTR is about and most of you associate Sir Ian Holm with this particular film. Second, (please, don’t be mad) I’m not really a fan of LOTR. I know, I know, you might be having an imaginary heart attack right now. Let put it this way… I don’t really like fantasy that much, but I still have huge respect towards the whole crew that worked on LOTR. End of story. Anyway, this post is my small tribute to Sir Ian Holm and I’d like to recommend you “From Hell”, where he played a very good and significant role. The film takes place in 1888 and focuses on a group of London prostitutes. One by one, they are being kidnapped and murdered by some mysterious person. The interesting part is the fact that they all die in a very specific way, which proves that the murderer is both a psychopath and a perfectionist. The case seems fascinating to Frederick Abberline (Johnny Depp), who’s a police officer with some supernatural visions. He wishes to find out who’s the murderer and make sure no other woman will be hurt. He starts working with Sir William Gull (Sir Ian Holm), the Royal Family physician and absolute expect in medicine. Besides that, Abberline meets Mary (Heather Graham), a prostitute, who’s also very much concerned about this whole situation. Those two start spending more and more time together, which makes them both fall in love. However, in the meantime, the murderer keeps playing his hide and seek game and no woman may feel safe. I think that everyone did a great job in this production and so did Sir Ian Holm. That is why, if you’re looking for a quite thrilling film and wish to see this marvellous actor on the screen, then I’d definitely recommend you to check it out. Thank you Mr. Holm, it was pleasure to have you with us.
My rating: 7/10
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I have nothing to watch 