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The Ninth Gate |  | Director: Roman Polanski
Actors: Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner, Barbara Jefford
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Rating:  378 reviews
Sales Rank: 33847
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), Spanish (Published)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 133 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 6305897786
UPC: 012236607472
EAN: 9780784012703
ASIN: 6305897786
Theatrical Release Date: March 10, 2000
Release Date: July 18, 2000
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 378
 What was up with this ending? July 8, 2010
James D. Crabtree (Fayetteville, North Carolina)
In this film Johnny Depp plays an antique book dealer who is hired by a millionaire named Balkan to investigate two copies of a book on Satan. There are only three copies of this book in existence and Balkan has the third, which he loans to Depp in order to find out if any of the copies are fake.
The movie starts out very promisingly, with a look at how the antique book business works and travel to Europe to look at the other copies and the interesting characters we see along the way. However, several murders happen along the way and I'm still not sure exactly who was supposed to be responsible, or indeed who the female "protector" of Depp is. The book started out very well but towards the end through in some gratuitous sex and a last-minute plot twist and just left a bunch of things unsaid. If the loose threads had been wrapped up before the final credits this could have easily been a 5-star film, since the acting and the cinematography were great, but I couldn't do it.
 REALLY dumb April 6, 2010
:) (Bellevue, WA USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This flick is promising for the first few minutes. Then not even Captain Sparrow can save it.
 Great entertainment, unfairly over-analysed April 5, 2010
Dr. Chuang Wei Ping (Singapore)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Movies made for public consumption must be for entertainment, not for analysis for an award. The Ninth Gate is way more enjoyable than iconic movies like Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby. There is unjustified over-analysis of this movie, which stifles enjoyment.
The cinematography was excellent, justifying the wide-screen. The DTS soundtrack was impressive. Colour saturation was intense, putting the Blu-ray to good effect. Comments on the Blu-ray version having washed out colours are groundless. When light streams in behind the actors through library and café windows, there is going to be less colour in areas lit by shafts of light: photography 101. There are a lot of scenes taking place in libraries, and there is a lot of backlighting in the movie. There is no colour washout at all: the skin tones are outstanding, as confirmed by the bare bodies of Lena Olin and Emmanuelle Seigner.
Lack of features? Roman Polanski's detailed and non-stop commentary was the best I have heard in a very long time - it is virtually an instructional lecture on movie making. This commentary, pleasantly, is never once self-serving or self-congratulatory. It incorporates into the narrative all the relevant material normally found in "Special Features". Besides one gets to watch this marvellous movie one more time, the original feature not having boring moments helps making this exhaustive commentary readily consumable. The drawings in "Special Features" have characters bearing an uncanny resemblance to various actors.
Unresolved ending? Roman Polanski wisely leaves the final encounter between Johnny Depp and the Prince of Darkness to the viewer's imagination. To be fair, no movie interpretation can possibly come out right, nor can any good come out of it.
This Blu-ray does not work on the old Sony BDP-300, but is playable with models Sony BDP-350 and later 2.0 BDPs.
Many movies give the feeling "I could have written this script myself" or "another variation of a worn theme". Not this one. It is compelling and refreshing drama. Since this story was put to film in 1999, there has rarely been another quite as original.
Dumb ! March 7, 2010
Larry Petersen (Illinois)
2 out of 11 found this review helpful
Since Polanski seems to no longer be able to direct films, he should return from flight, end his fugative from justice status, and serve his time for his crime; plying a 13 year old girl with drugs and alcohol, first raping, and then sodomizing her.
 Good movie - until it ended... February 6, 2010
Lizzy B (Utica, NY)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Listen, I liked this movie as much as everyone else below. Johnny Depp is an amazing actor - the characters were well defined - good story - the movie was soooo good - and then it ended and you're like "What?" - I did of course figure out what happened but it did not fit the pace of the rest of the movie. It could've been soooo much better. The whole pace of the movie builds you up for some spectacular ending that never happens. The ending was a disgrace to the entire movie and made me hate the whole thing. Whats the point of a great story line if it doesn't carry you through to the end? If they had made a sequel that picked up from the end, I may have reconsidered my position on this movie - but since the sequel never came this movie is a disgrace to good movies.
Needless to say, I was very offended. This movie would've easily been one of my favorite movies but now I will never watch it again.
Great story line, great acting, great directing, TERRIBLE ending.
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