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Oh man, what a dog. I actually bought this one,
figuring that with a good actor like Depp, and a
plot that includes a rare book dealer, I couldn't
go wrong...just goes to show.
Depp is a rare book dealer who gets hired by Frank
Langella (used to be a serious honey, now plays
faintly menacing characters...but still has a
lovely voice) to find the other two copies of a
satanic book; one of the three is a fake, but
Langella doesn't know which. Of course, wierd stuff
starts happening as soon as Depp walks out of the
room with it, and many people are killed. The
ending was so completely off the wall that we had
to back it up and listen to Roman "Pretentious"
Polansky's commentary track to try to make sense of
it...I mean, it was kinda obvious what happened,
but not very clear at the same time...but the
commentary was no help, it was also not very clear.
Anyway, we were left with a profound feeling of
"Huh?" mixed with "Is that all?".
A few good f/x, fires mostly, but not worth
sitting through this dog to see.
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