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Ostensibly providing insights (funny and otherwise) into the world of rare books and the lengths some book collectors will go to...it also has "religious" overtones due to a subtheme of devil worship. This may not be a comfortable subject for some. However, being an avid book reader, I found the storyline extremely interesting with some surprising twists and turns. Johnny Depp, as always, turns in a superb performance. The supporting actors and actresses were also excellent. There was some gratuituous (and fleeting) nudity (not Johnny! sad to report!) that didn't add anything to the story snd could/should have been left out, in my opinion. It is a very entertaining film with a satisfying ending.
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Because I've become somewhat of a Depp fan in recent years, I picked up The Ninth Gate from a $5 bargain bin at walmart.I had never heard of the movie and the premise was wonderfully intriguing and full of potential. Unfortunately the movie did not fully take advantage of this potential. I actually enjoyed the first 70% of the movie. The mystery alone had me glued me to the screen. In the last half our or so, however, all of the movie's worth was nullified. I enjoy a movie that leaves questions unanswered, but this movie left the WRONG questions. Because of this blunder, the story didn't matter to me and, in the end, it seemed that the entire point of the movie was to facilitate two nude scenes.
If you're into movies that are just for nudity, I'm sure there are better ones out there. If you're looking for a wonderfully compelling and thought provoking story, I suggest you look elsewhere. I, for one, want my $5 back...
~Ben H
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Great Movie!
Everything about this movie is really good!
Cast, acting, story, locations, filming.....a really goos thriller!
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I love Johnny Depp! This is quite a thriller but Depp is believeable in any role. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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There's something so cruel about Roman Polanski's "Ninth Gate", something so mean underneath the surface, that though it isn't always a frightening film, it certainly ranks up there with some of the more campy and direct movies about Old Scratch.
Unlike "The Pianist" or some of Polanski's more recent mainstream films, this makes no direct attempt to spoonfeed the viewer the meaning or message of the film. For all the eccentricity, though--and there's plenty of it--this actually isn't too tough to figure out.
Johnny Depp plays Dean Corso, a lowlife rare book collector who, like everyone else in the film, wants what he wants when he wants it. He is a dry, ironic, cynical intellectual whose dominant personality trait is his ego and desire for money. Depp's performance is amazing despite how little he is given to work with; the laughs never stop as his curt, smartass responses to every question asked flow like a bilious current.
Contracted by a power hungry devotee of the Black Arts (Frank Langella in one of his ugliest and most frightening roles) Boris Balkan, his mission is to find an authentic copy of a book called "The Ninth Gate", a text which supposedly leads directly to the presence and power of Satan himself.
Here the mad surreality and black humor begin. It resembles very closely Roman Polanski's 1976 film "The Tenant", except this film has an almost complete absence of protagonists or decent characters at all. Everyone is more less a degenerate. During Corso's ominous escapades and his encounters with thoroughly sinister and foul people (all of whom die when Balkan discovers that they are not cooperating with Corso's search, leading one to believe he is indeed the Devil), a young woman who looks like a raggedy college student follows him constantly. At first she appears merely scary and irritating, like everyone else in this doomed, musty landscape: when Corso is physically attacked, however, we realize she is not an agent of Balkan's or a college student. She displays supernatural powers and yet she reacts to the constant deaths that occur with a kind of attentiveness towards Corso's reactions, looking for guilt or disgust and finding none--and she seems pleased.
The ending of the movie is so funny and so filthy at the same time that we know Polanski is refusing to compromise one little bit. Corso, at first a neutral amoral character, becomes obsessed with his quest for the book and gets in Balkan's way--his ending is particularly hilarious. Polanski also takes a shot at Satanists, as Balkan exclaims to a crowd of them, dressed in pentagrams and black robes: "Do you really think the Prince of Darkness would manifest himself in the midst of this nonsense?"
A good look at Corso's "Guardian Angel" at the end reveals just who she is and what her true intentions were the whole time. I'm not going to reveal what happens, but I am surprised so many viewers were "dumbfounded" by this movie. A great exercise in Polanskian madness!
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