The Limehouse Golem

Made me watch it again after the first viewing, it's at the very limit of what I can tolerate for gore or subject matter, but it was the very ending scene I knew I had to see it again, it has the right mix of subject, getting to the edge but not quite crossing it, keeping you guessing then making you watch it again to see what you missed.

Proper jack the ripper atmosphere. Really enjoyed it.Great acting and a story you will want to see through to the end.

A glorified tele-movie. Nothing original, nothing exciting. So bland in so many ways.

It's a lot of fun with some very good performances and there are some lovely set pieces. It's let down by the viciousness of the murders and the twist. Good way of spending a couple of hours.

Love a good period piece. Extra star for solid set of knockers and a breath-taking bungus.

I understand where this movie was going with its story and the message they wanted to portray, but this film would have been more serviceable from the point of view from the serial killer than a detective movie (to which it barely was).

This film is somewhat spooky in tone but also felt a little bit forced perhaps - its predictable to an extent but having said that, I did find it relatively entertaining. I thought Bill Nighy was a good choice of actor in his role as he seemed to me quite believable as a Victorian police inspector. There is quite a lot of bloody violence depicted, or perhaps moreso bloody injuries depicted, which mean it isn't for the faint hearted. its fairly atmospheric, although there have been a fair number of similar period drama films made and released in the past. I think I mostly liked it in terms of trying to understand where other characters were coming from, attempting to piece things together. It felt like a feature length BBC costume drama production, only with a bit more blood and gore than we might perhaps expect. Not a great watch but not an awful one either, I felt it was ok. There was a definite element of enforced melodrama which didn't sit well with me but its not unwatchable either. Would I recommend it? I'm not sure I'd say its worth going out of your way to see, so no I wouldn't outright recommend it. It felt a bit too 'run of the mill' to me, although thats not to say it isn't watchable but I wouldn't spend money to see it specifically.

It made very little sense. The who-did-it grew very tedious very quickly.. the script just seemed to be a tv-movie script on a film budget. Honestly, don't bother.

Great mystery. The big reveal is not too much of a surprise, but it's gripping because you'll think you had it figured out early, then moved away from that theory, but in the end you were right. Very entertaining and kept me glued to my seat.

The Limehouse Golem finally achieves the sort of amusing, disturbing yet not completely serious dark horror that it strives towards in the final few scenes, but falls far too short in the rest of the film for the ends to justify the means. Some of the special effects are cheap yet excessive to self-parody and the gore gratuitous and pointless. The characters, though attempts are made to add colour, never really come to life. Bill Nighy never steps out from a state of relative sedation and Olivia Cooke outshines him in most of the film. Alan Rickman might have been better in the role than Nighy if not for his death but that fades to irrelevancy in the end. The whole exercise is a melodramatic and maddeningly derivative (Karl Marx? Really?) try at solid entertainment that mostly fails. Booth and Reid in the other main roles do little to justify breaking into the big box office and awards smashes that Olivia Cooke has dipped her toe into. Best not to dwell too long on this one.