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Summary: Quite disturbing
Review: An original view of vampires. I liked the fact that it was about the psychological profile of the vampire and not one of those movies where everybody dies and blood splashes everywhere.
I didn't find the love-story part of this movie convincing but all the rest was OK. The Grlscz character is deeply interesting, behaving strangely, filled with inner conflicts and drawn to troubled women. I really felt sorry for him at one point (when he was sick). I appreciated the fact that he didn't enjoy drinking blood, it seemed quite painful in fact and the idea of him watching everything that everybody did and forgetting to breathe (even though I didn't understand why)was really interesting. I found the end very disappointing, all the scene on the roof being quite pointless.
I loved Jude Law's performance, he genuinly was disturbing, as he was ment to be and he really made a big impression on me. It's quite impressive how he fills the silence without saying a word. You feel a sort of attraction to him, and he acts very subtily, with very few facial expressions and a creepy smile.
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Summary: Not Judes best decision
Review: I am a big fan of Jude Law and wanted to see this when it was first released under the title "Wisdom of Crocodiles", but i dont remember it ever being released in America. When i found out it was available in America on DVD, i rented it. I was thourouhgly unimpressed. The movie is very slow moving, and Jude Law, while usually a fantastic actor in even the drabbest setting, was unmistakably boring. Law plays a "vampire" who feeds off the emotions his victims carry in their blood. He keeps records of the victims with the particular emotion they had that was fulfilling for him. He wooed his victims for a time and each fell in love with him before meeting their death. Until the final victim, whose name escapes me because she was bad, makes him fall in love with her and she in turns becomes the death of him. this movie is not bad but it is far from great.. definitely wait for cable...
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Summary: Not Judes best decision
Review: I am a big fan of Jude Law and wanted to see this when it was first released under the title "Wisdom of Crocodiles", but i dont remember it ever being released in America. When i found out it was available in America on DVD, i rented it. I was thourouhgly unimpressed. The movie is very slow moving, and Jude Law, while usually a fantastic actor in even the drabbest setting, was unmistakably boring. Law plays a "vampire" who feeds off the emotions his victims carry in their blood. He keeps records of the victims with the particular emotion they had that was fulfilling for him. He wooed his victims for a time and each fell in love with him before meeting their death. Until the final victim, whose name escapes me because she was bad, makes him fall in love with her and she in turns becomes the death of him. this movie is not bad but it is far from great.. definitely wait for cable...
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Summary: #2 on my Top 10 Worst Movies Ever
Review: I am a big vampire fan as well as a Jude Law fan. This movie absolutely SUCKED! Don't bother wasting your time. It was so bad it actually made me want to write a review to warn others. The end of the movie made no sense whatsoever and ended abruptly. It was so terrible that when it ended I was speechless, and had no words to describe just how awful it was. Please, I warn you all, this is one of the worst movies ever made. If you are curious what #1 on my list of Worst Movies Ever is, it's the 'Omega Code' and #3 is 'Moulin Rouge'. Please save yourself 5 bucks on renting any of these bombs!!
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Summary: Oh No!
Review: I am a really big fan of Jude Law, so I had to give this movie a chance. I had never heard anything about it and I wasn't expecting too much, and that's a good thing because I didn't get very much. Jude was unquestionably wonderful. Whatever it was that he was trying to portray, I'm sure he did a wonderful job, I just think this was a bad movie. The plot was really rather ... terrible. I mean, I cant imagine that anyone could come up with something so useless. It wasn't very entertaining at all. About 15 minutes into the film my friend looks at me and says "Were we supposed to know something before we started watching this?" The whole movie made about that much sense. I had to watch it twice before I figured out just what was going on. This movie was just a bit too weird for me. I didn't even know that he was supposed to be a vampire (or whatever that was) until he had killed his first victim. Over all I really didn't like this movie and I don't recommend watching it unless you are a REALLY BIG Jude Law fan.
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Summary: Unique Vampire
Review: I found the talent of Jude Law late to the game, and had to go back and see much of his earlier work far removed from its date of release. "Immortality," or "Wisdom of Crocodiles" as it came to me, is one of the best examples of Law's ability as an actor. Of all of his older movies, this would be the one to buy.
Granted, I'm a sucker for an original horror movie - none of that blood and guts for me! I want depth, unique-ness, and a captivating dark tale. This filled the bill on all accounts. Law expertly plays a vampire, attractive but repulsive. It is believable because of this contradiction. Anyone as attractive as Law's character has to have their downfall. And slowly, the viewer sees the pain he lives with.
Highly recommended!
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Summary: Strange but engaging
Review: I got this movie by mistake but wasn't disappointed. It is defitely not 'vampire' movie but rather an attempt to some phylosophical sharade about love and life (at least, that's how I understood it). Jude Law is as usual very good but the same cannot be said about main female actress. It is slow sometimes but this comes with the style of this movie
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Summary: Beautiful, but needs more...
Review: I happened upon this movie by browsing the video store aisles, and wasn't quite sure what to expect. I was pleasantly surprised by the beautiful art direction...Jude's character is slightly reminiscent of Hannibal Lecter in the second installment of the series, cultured and mostly restrained and inward, surrounding himself with beauty but still seemingly unfulfilled in his desires.
I felt that the movie's overall premise, which seemed to be a vampire searching for the one love that will stop his cycle of neverending birth (stated poignantly by the anecdote, at beginning and end, about his boyhood story of clinging desperately to a tree, before falling), was good, but the follow through was disappointing.
The interplay between Jude's character (which he plays brilliantly, in silence and gesture, and with words - in otherwords, anyone else would have made this movie rotten tomatoes) and the police detective is very intriguing, but wasn't developed enough to make the movie more interesting.
The one blatant ripoff I found amusing was the elevator sequences, which are taken directly from a much better movie, Angel Heart.
But overall I would recommend this as one-time viewing, especially for Law fans. Much potential, but just not satisfying enough for repeat viewing.
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Summary: Interesting movie
Review: I have never seen a movie w/ a supernatural being like this. Kerry Fox also plays in this (Shallow Grave--Ewan McGregor's Breakthrough role). He is gorgeous in this movie and I felt sorry for how he lived. I don't remember how he became like he did though or was it explained but the rest was nice esp. his friendship w/ the police/father figure
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Summary: HANDSOME PSYCHOTHRILLER HIDES OVERDRAWN HOKUM
Review: I saw this film under the international title of "The Wisdom of Crocodiles", which is a much more apt descriptor for this visually suave, emotionally semi-philosophical dive into vampire (or was it?) land. A brave film if nothing else. The narrative is effortlessly constructed to intrigue, with some very decent writing. Especially in a scene with an innocuous looking Jude Law walking with a police constable, tossing around semi-baked ideas of the blurry lines that divides Good vs. Evil in the hearts of men. The soundtrack supports the superb screenplay immaculately. Problem is, apart from dragging for the last half an hour, the movie ultimately leaves a taste of pointlessness. The entire narrative hinges on whether or not Law is a vampire, simply because we need to know why he acts the way he does. In the absence of that, it is merely a slow-paced tale of poof. Some dialogue about love and life is pretty competent, but the ending comes and goes without any sort of a clue as to what we've been watching. Great actors and splendid camerawork squandered on something someone obviously thought was very clever and subtle. It is not.
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