I Am the Ripper

I'm an avid consumer of cinema, but this is the first time I've ever been moved to offer a few words to this website.

'I am the Ripper' is a sublime production - in my view, the finest film since Kieslowski's 'Three Colours: Red' – and one I suspect I'll revisit many times yet. The 26-year-old Nicolas Tary offers a performance almost too good to be possible: he's mastered every shift of character with delicacy and conviction; his screen presence is entrancing. Fabien Félicité is only just short of matching Tary's brilliance, achieving a palpable despair in every challenge his character faces. The script is pared down to the essentials – perhaps a rarity amongst French erotic horror films - but is so packed with subtleties that I suspect only three or more viewings will reveal them all. Eric Anderson couldn't have realised this material any better, capturing with perfect balance the silences and the words, the darkness and the light, the comedy and the tragedy. The lilting motifs of the music represent the quintessence of film scoring; and the characters' environment is exquisitely recorded by the camera.

But aside from these technical considerations, this story is so deeply touching, and so beautifully rendered, that I'm still haunted by its images and moods. Could the challenge of a wrestling match with Death (or between any two persons) be better presented on screen? So tender is the bond between these characters; so confusing are the feelings this bond generates; and so lonely is the experience that results from these characters' decisions – that I think not.

In a world saturated with superlatives, I struggle to express my reaction to this film adequately. Perhaps I should say no more than I want this film to win every award it can, and I want the whole world to see it.

Watching this flick just reminded me of another flick, Adam Chaplin (2011), also a controversial flick. Of course this one here was first and let me say that this wasn't my thing at all.

I can't say a positive thing about it. It's slow, the acting is terrible and the effects are laughable. I can understand the fact that it is a low budget, or let's say an ultra low budget but it's so weird to watch.

A masked killer attacking a home party and his face is in fact a skull,....that can talk. No, I can take a lot but if you go this way and to be honest doesn't have really gory moments then I don't know who would like to see this.

Gore 1/5 Nudity 0/5 effects 1/5 Story 1/5 Comedy 0/5

The acting is terrible, the CGI and special effects are some of the worst I've ever seen in a film and the script is a total mess from start to finish. Overall the film is a disappointment.

What do you mean there was no storyline in this film? the story was very simple- teenagers, flat, killer, massacre and survival plus a killer twist at the end. I do realise that the gore looks like strawberry milkshake and the fights borrow a lot from The matrix but it is good to watch. Yes the effects are looking like a children paint contest but it is full of action and also the twist at the end which i did love because the film made sense in the end when i saw that bit, and also the ending has the best special effects than the rest of the movie but I am the Ripper is good to watch at least once and is better than most s*** out there on the shelves. I would watch it again and yes it is very funny in parts. Shame they couldn't remake it with better special effects and proper gore cause that would make this one killer movie to watch. It's worth a look.