Prismark10
The film starts with Al Pacino playing a veteran cop Detective Archer on the verge of retirement. Pacino who would had been 77 years old when the film was released he looks like the grandfather of a veteran cop who is on the verge of retirement despite his weird dark hair!The action moves a year after Detective Archer had a prang with an unidentified car to Detective Ruiney (Karl Urban) who is being shadowed by an ace reporter Christi Davies (Brittany Snow.) They come across a horrific crime scene of a woman hanging with a letter carved on her. The killer is calling out to Ruiney and the now retired Detective Archer by playing a game of hangman as other bodies and letters turn up.Hangman is a bizarre low rent Seven knock off where the serial killer's method and madness is just nonsense. Stolen blood from a priest, one victim being someone who enjoys S&M, a speeding train heading for a hanging man who is still alive, a pig head, a detective in a wheelchair on the verge of a nervous breakdown. With all the insanity and killings, only two detectives and a journalist are on the case.Hangman is a plodding, laborious film that is ridiculous. It can be summed up by a laughably bad chase scene of a man on a motorbike who then just stands there on the road as the chasing trio are speeding for him when something leftfield happens.To top it all, what is Pacino doing with that silly southern accent?
sacratez
Al Pacino was excellent and the other reviews about his dialect are wrong. His accents didn't change through out the movie. Excellent acting and the storyline was superb the way it tied in with the first victim. It kept me focused the whole time and that is hard to do since I'm in a wheelchair and have a large database of movies. A movie is only as good as it's storyline and this was near perfect.
missmomosa
My god this is a travesty. None of what happens would be acceptable on a real police force. Its all so immature as If no one...not even Pacino went over the script for inaccuracies. Dont get me started on the female ridealong....holy she would never happen. So much of this is flawed and I have 52mins left to watch. The script is so broken like stuff just happens but with no idea why or how or any backstory. Its just unreal...too unreal to be acceptable. The detectives are stupid, the darn forensic scientist is stupid... the only acceptable believable character is the captain.
DBLurker
I'll be honest, I had no idea WTF Hangman game was, it's not common outside West. The only reason I saw the movie was because of Urban and Pacino, two of my favorite actors.So basically, I saw the whole movie without researching "Hangman" (the game), expecting there to be a short scene where they would casually mention what Hangman game was played like (can be easily done without making it look like they're explaining it to the audience). So if you aren't a Westerner or have no idea what this game is, most of the stuff the killer does seems more ridiculous than usual. After I watched the movie, I searched on YouTube to see what Hangman game was about (there's like a one min video explaining it, that's all the movie needed as well). This is whole new level of sloppy.ANYWAY, what's hilarious is that after knowing what Hangman game is like, this movie seems even dumber. First of all, I had no idea where they were making most of the connections from. They seem to be assuming a lot of things and Pacino's character is freakin Sherlock Holmes so he's always right about things. In-fact, dialogues are so pointlessly trying to over-complicate things, that you just zone out and stop caring (kinda like the actors who are there just for a paycheck).The murders are just ridiculously dumb. Why does the killer pick Hangman game to kill people? I don't know, THEY don't know, it's never explained. Killer is played by a unimpressive actor who only ONCE makes a appearance in the middle of the movie, until the end. And that middle appearance is nothing special. He seems to hang around every murder and our two heroes are so incompetent that they can't take down a serial killer who keeps showing up at every crime. Hell, in one scene there are cops everywhere next to the murder victim and the killer is casually walking around for dramatic effect.Skipping right to the ending, it's the dumbest thing I've ever seen. There is no resolution cause the director thought that this turd would get a sequel, somehow. Knowing Hollywood, it probably will.Why does this movie have 5/10 rating here? This should be about 1/10.
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