Hmm. There must be an older review of this one out there in the ether but I can’t for the life of me find it. I also seem to remember having this on DVD yet I felt this time around like I hadn’t seen it since the big screen. Hmph. Anyway, this is a great movie which seems to get better every time I see it (I know, those last two sentences don’t make any sense together, lol). Johnny Depp is, of course, brilliant, but he is just one piece of a massive puzzle and in this case, I have to say, even comes second to one of his co-stars, Robbie Coltrane. I think the fact that Heather Graham doing a Cockney accent and being onscreen so much is nowhere near as irritating as it sounds is about the highest praise you can give the movie. Then the casting of Ian Holm, of course, trying not to give too much away except to say, I think that casting was sheer genius, in that you believe him before the end and you believe him at the end. I’ve still not read the graphic novel but it’s still at the top of my very short list of such things I’d like to read. It seems the Hughes Brothers certainly achieved that apparently so difficult thing of adapting such a thing to the big screen quite a while before 300 and Sin City, that’s for sure. I just love the movie for the way it works on every emotion that’s going – there’s a little bit of comedy with Ian Richardson’s character, a lot of horror of course, a little sexiness, a sort of buddy movie, a love story, and then in the last 10 minutes it absolutely crushes you with hope and loss. It’s really kind of beautiful, and I’ll watch it many times more.

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