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The Ninth Gate |  | Director: Roman Polanski
Actors: Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner, Barbara Jefford
Category: DVD
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Rating:  380 reviews
Sales Rank: 232047
Format: PAL
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Latin (Original Language), Portuguese (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 133 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 044007824122
EAN: 0044007824122
ASIN: B00005AYET
Theatrical Release Date: March 10, 2000
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 Interesting detective story at beautiful European locations, adult fairytale August 29, 2010
Jeff W. Shimkus (Chicago)
The Ninth Gate is one of those movies that reminds me of how hard it is to write a review that people can agree with. It is a film that I love, but understand that it is not an interesting movie for others. Things I really appreciate, like the anti-movement against rapid cut scenes and numerous close ups, is like a life-saving suck of air for me. A movie about books, that appreciate and put on-screen the finer qualities such as detail shots of the type and illustrations. I see far too many movies today that remind me of what microsoft and apple want the future to be. This movie is like a valentine to book lovers like me, and it is another reason why I adore this movie.
The blue ray edition of the ninth gate has some nice additions. I found the audio commentary by Roman Polanski educational. He warms up to the movie after some time; after all, the commentary was done a year after the movie was released. Polanski is inspired to speak more than just about the MO, into what scenes he personally liked the most, and uncovers some of his artistic process.
This is a movie that is worth paying attention to. There are many details that I found rewarding to find. The ninth gate has some stirring moments such as the curious energy that is within a womans green eyes, that appear un-human. The pages of the book, make you believe that they take life. You see similarities in the faces of the characters you meet with those within the unholy book. And the sometimes horrific scenes illustrated in the book, seem attached to what happens to our detective. A translation from latin, gives warning to danger from above; and then the unpredictable accident occurs from above. A scafolding falls apart to the danger of anyone below. Another eerie illustration gives chase to an immediate scene that faceplants you directly into the page of the book itself.
The ninth gate is a movie that prepares you and intices you, like when you were a child listening to red robinhood. Except this movie is for the adult in you now. It is a story with anticipation, mystery, and unnamed danger lurking around every corner. It borrows iconic moments that we all know and love. A great movie that I highly recommend, but it is a movie that requires some faith on your behalf. Try to appreciate the different qualities of this movie, that seperates itself from what generaly is made into movies today.
Wonderful August 24, 2010
Chloe Angelo (Central Coast, Australia)
The DVD arrived much sooner than anticipated and in perfect condition.
Very thankful to the seller and will use their services again!
 What was up with this ending? July 8, 2010
James D. Crabtree (Fort Leavenworth, Kansas)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 5 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)
4 out of 4 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.
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