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That was an excellent one.

Sadly Over-hyped

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

I have a bad vision from up close when I forget my glasses, so I couldn't read the resume on the back when I rented it at the club, so I have to rely on the sleeve. I tought this would be not again about Jack the Ripper, but rather a steampunk re-design of the Batman universe. It was much more mainstream than that.The characters' design and voices were okay, but the backgrounds lacked in grandeur and oppression, and had too much colours, except the ones in the asylum which were nearer to the right tone. The filmakers obviously saw in this story a one-shot rather than a serie, and as such their work was directed towards the Batman fan first, and the Victorian/Steampunk fan second - Jack the Ripper being the era's most obvious story. In that sense it's a hit-and-miss - There was so much possibilities in there... IMO if they had given this to a real steampunk author, it would have been better.But still, it's indeed an interesting little piece, if merely for the potential.

Batman: Gotham By Gaslight does have a fascinating take on the Dark Knight fighting Jack the Ripper, but the animation comes off as cheap at times.

Finally, DC puts out something watchable. No, seriously - this is like a freaking rare Pokémon, a DC film that does no make you feel like a freaking idiot for wasting your time watching it. Honestly, I am not sure if this movie is actually as great as I am making it out to be or if DC set the bar so low that I am overrating an lukewarm movie. Whatever, I am planning to read the comic it is based on and rewatch the film again because I am a hardcore fan but also a realist and I'm predicting Warner Bros being dumb enough not to reboot their cinematic universe for a least another year. Foolish executives are going to permanently damage the DC brand unless they give us a hard reboot - which is why REAL DC fans stopping paying to watch any DC movie years ago. Keep it up and save DC. I am sick of Marvel fans laughing at our movies.

**very slight spoilers**The source material was heavily discarded when writing this screenplay. I like both the original graphic novel and this movie for very different reasons because they are very different. The killer in the book is quintessential Jack the Ripper, whereas the killer and the situation in this movie is an amalgam of Jack the Ripper and H. H. Holmes. The latter is the real-life serial killer, the tales of which spawned the inception of the book-to-be-movie The Devil in the White City. Bottom line: I liked what they changed/added, yet the core story is still excellent by itself. The only downfall to this film I would say is that the pacing is a bit iffy and if the movie is going to be Rated R, no sense beating around the bush. Show the gore as it is meant to be shocking to the viewer. Lastly, in my opinion, if they were going to make all the changes they did, they may as well have had a female put Jack down. It would have been a nice sense of irony for the chauvinistic marauder.