The Ninth Gate (1999)
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Flawed but effective.
I picked up a copy of The Ninth Gate and viewed it solely for the presence of Johnny Depp.
Depp is an accomplished actor whom I admire. He always chooses his film roles with great care; hence I was ambitious to see this one.
Roman Polanski is also an acclaimed director... read more
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The plot was original and creepy. Not so much scary, but it was more a thriller and had a spooky vibe to it. Basically Dean Corso, a rare book hunter who is hired by a demonologist to track down the other two remaining copies of a book he owns to examine them and authenticate his copy. Little ... read more
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" Dean Corso specializes in tracking down rare and exotic volumes for collectors. Boris Balkan (Frank Langella) has recently acquired a seventeenth-century satanic text called The Nine Gates- a legendary book written by Satan himself. With The Nine Gates in his possession, Corso soon finds himself at the center of strange and violent goings-on. Not only is his apartment ransacked, it appears that he is being shadowed ferociously by others determined to regain the book. Based on the novel, “"
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" Dean Corso specializes in tracking down rare and exotic volumes for collectors. Boris Balkan (Frank Langella) has recently acquired a seventeenth-century satanic text called The Nine Gates- a legendary book written by Satan himself. With The Nine Gates in his possession, Corso soon finds himself at the center of strange and violent goings-on. Not only is his apartment ransacked, it appears that he is being shadowed ferociously by others determined to regain the book. Based on the novel, “"
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"Dean Corso (Johnny Depp) saa toimeksiannon. Demonologiasta luennoiva Boris Balkan (Frank ”Nixon-Skeletor-Dracula” Langella) palkkaa nukkavierun, ja häikäilemättömästi toimivan bibliofiilin etsimään kolmen säilyneen 300-vuotta sitten kirjoitetun, Venetsiassa vuonna 1666 julkaistun satanistisen kirjan – Yhdeksän porttia varjojen valtakuntaan – eroja. Balkan tahtoo tietää, mikä kolmesta kirjasta on aito. Kaksi muuta säilynyttä painosta ovat tiedettävästi Ranskassa ja Portuga"