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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: This is more disappointing than it might have been because Taking Lives has a low boil but constant simmer that has been rarely present in previous attempts to revive the insinuating creepiness of The Silence of the Lambs and Se7en. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: The first nine minutes of Taking Lives are, in fact, compelling and good ... Sadly, the rest of Taking Lives is not worth paying for. Read more
Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: An unimaginative, protracted gore-fest that swipes from David Fincher's Seven like a cinematic pickpocket but only comes up with lint. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Taking Lives is often style over substance. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: I am recommending Taking Lives because it has a sharp visual style, one big twist that did take me by surprise, and a couple of hard scares that gave me the chills. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Solid genre movie. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Taking Lives is so lifeless and beside the point that its DVD version should skip letterboxing and just be shown in a heavy chalk outline. Read more
Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: It's slick nonsense at best and for the first hour it's watchable. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Jolie needs a role with teeth, not one that merely exploits her bee-stung lips. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: A Silence of the Lambs - meets - Talented Mr. Ripley knockoff with all the gore and premonitory 'darkness' and none of the intrigue. Read more
Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: Best of all, it doesn't star Ashley Judd, who has made a wearying specialty out of playing tough-tender female cops. Danger-prone Angelina Jolie is on the case here -- an improvement that pays big dividends throughout. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: An above-average thriller. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: D.J Caruso's artfully photographed mystery thriller is even better looking than its stars, Angelina Jolie and Ethan Hawke. But even your pet Chihuahua could sniff out the solution. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: Just as the central criminal steals the identity of his victims, Taking Lives lifts traits and style from other movies. Both do so relatively successfully, until they bungle the job in the final half-hour. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: Even with Angelina Jolie thrown in for forensic sex appeal, this dog won't hunt. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Screenwriter Jon Bokenkamp litters the trajectory with more red herrings than the traffic can bear in less than two hours. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Angelina Jolie plays an F.B.I. profiler on the trail of a sick and ingenious serial killer. Is there anything more to say? Not really. Read more
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: While it's not in a league with The Silence of the Lambs, it works in a similarly efficient way. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Taking Lives is actually an effective thriller, on its modest but stylish level. Read more
Charles Taylor, Salon.com: Jolie is far too good for this tripe but she does give the film its only believable moments, and for the first half, her concentration makes you watch her intently. Read more
Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: To buy this picture, you have to buy Jolie's character, and the actress succeeds much of the time. But once her contained, job-obsessed agent gets involved with a man close to her case, much of what came before is negated. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: Caruso is a much more resourceful director than this material deserves, but I resented being two steps ahead of the genius profiler and the genius serial-killer. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Taking Lives clearly aims to be a stylish, eerie chiller along the lines of Seven. Despite a nerve-wracking car chase and one jump-out-of-your-pants shock, the results are more like Three. Read more
Malene Arpe, Toronto Star: While not breaking any new ground, director D.J. Caruso's movie also doesn't disappoint. Read more
Mike Clark, USA Today: From the opening credits, Lives seems bound to recapture the queasy mood of 1995's Seven. But it's too dull to even pull off quease until a notably unpleasant climax. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: Somber, absorbing thriller that treads familiar psycho serial killer terrain with style. Read more
Ed Gonzalez, Village Voice: If the Naqoyqatsi-lite score by Philip Glass doesn't exactly make sense of the film's sketchy identity politics, it does complement its utter ridiculousness. Read more