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Genres:
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Mystery /
Thriller /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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D.J. Caruso
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Actors:
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Gena Rowlands,
Jean-Hugues Anglade,
Olivier Martinez,
André Lacoste,
Angelina Jolie,
Ethan Hawke,
Kiefer Sutherland,
Tchéky Karyo,
Paul Dano,
Justin Chatwin
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Duration:
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103 min.
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Rating:
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(5.8/10)131
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Plot Summary:
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A psychological thriller, "Captivating Lives" is the story of an FBI agent (Jolie) who becomes involved with her frequency witness while tracking a abundant serial killer who assumes the lives and identities of the people he kills. She finds herself surrounded by numerous suspects and no one to trust.
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Taking Lives
Another run-of-the-mill end the life of question that offers nothing budding, other than Angelina Jolie as the sort of profiler who lies down in graves in search of spirit; the movie's makers should have followed her pattern.
Taking Lives
Beginning with a title course reminiscent of the innovative credits used for Seven, this Montreal-embark serial killer chiller is at best a plagiaristic amusement that mutilates much better examples of the kind. Any promise steersman DJ Caruso had shown with his debut, the 2002 drug play-acting The Salton Sea, is squandered here. Adapted aside Jon Bokenkamp from the novel by Michael Pye, Taking Lives stars Angelina Jolie in despite everything another career-inauspicious role as a smart and sensual FBI profiler named Illeana Scott. Without considering meet with recalcitrance from the grumpy resident French-speaking cops (Olivier Martinez, Jean-Hughes Anglade and Tch?©ky Karyo), Scott is drafted in to hands them footprints down a doozy who is assuming the iden...
Taking Lives
"...A dice above most serial daisy movies with devoted performances..."
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