Great movie - awful science

Thf

I have watched this movie several times - the story is great, the acting is great, the casting is great, etc.. It hasn't got anything to do with the original Whitechapel murders, however.

The factual errors in this movie are to numerous to mention - a few webpages have tried counting them all, and I think there are more than 100 major errors in this movie. A lot of the characters are portrayed quite differently from how they actually where, some of the chronology is all wrong, a lot of central evidence has been withheld, some evidence has even been made up, etc.

There is nothing "well balanced" about this, if you're looking for a portrayal of the actual events that took place. Most of this movie is based on a book by Stephen Knight - or one of his fans - a book which has been denounced as totally incorrect and factless by ALL serious Ripper researchers.

Still a great movie, though - can't give it more than 7/10 however, as it claims to be a true story - which it most certainly is not!

score /10

Thf 24 August 2004

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