the audience applauded

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Here's a list of things Ripper gets wrong:1) It's a post-Scream slasher 2) It's full of terrible music and horrible quick-cut editing 3) It's one hour and forty-five minutes long (A slasher film!) 4) With the exception of Bruce Payne and Jurgen Protchnow, the acting is terribleAnd if you think I'm going to say 'in spite of this, I liked it' then you're wrong. It was crap!After a promising pre-credits sequence where a girl named Molly survives a serial killer's rampage, we're thrown right into smart arse territory as we see our victims are all part of a college class who are studying murderers, or something. We've got our post-Scream list of morons here: goth-like Molly who keeps her past a secret, Marissa (Kelly Brook!), who's the nymph, twitchy red herring guy, the dark stud guy, the wisecracking guy, and the bitch, who hates Molly and serves to introduce an unneeded teeny drama element to the proceedings. Their teacher is Bruce Payne, an ex-FBI profiler who also has a dark secret. Everyone, with the exception of the twitchy guy, is confident and annoying. We run slap bang into the film's main problem here: too much talking! We get a lot of babble about serial killers (looks at watch), characters establishing themselves (nods off), and a fake killing instigated by the teacher (pffft). Eventually we get to the first killing, which, for anyone who sat through The Big Breakfast on British television, is mercifully Kelly Brook. She's stabbed to death in a nightclub in a way that turns out to be exactly the same way Jack the Ripper killed his first victim (more lengthy discussions about Jack the Ripper here, and indeed this goes on throughout the film). To cut a very long story short (there are only two killings in the first hour!), one of the students (or maybe the teacher) is killing everyone else in the way Jack the Ripper killed his victims. Turns out all the students have the same initials as the victims of Jack (how stupid is that?) so they know who's going to be next. Throw in some Dawson's Creek drama (Molly likes the stud, but the Bitch tries to derail things), some truly daft contrivances (the initials thing, Molly being able to hack the police database) and a severe lack of gore and nudity, and you have a truly rubbish slasher flick. What drags this film way, way down is the deadly serious tone, the crappy music (nu-metal, some emo style crap) and the acting of the younger cast. Check out Molly's tantrum which seems to involve throwing cushions around and spray painting! Also, the 'killing Jack the Ripper style' plot is plainly dropped after the first two kills (unless Jack the Ripper used a bandsaw and a hatchet), plus the ending is completely daft and annoying.It is well made enough, but the post-Scream era wasn't a great time for slasher films. What Scream missed was that, yes, the older films had clichés, and were predictable, but they were fun! Don't believe me: try Pieces (1982), Don't Open Till Christmas (1984), and any other Sleepaway Camp films. Much better. Avoid!

This movie had a good idea. Kids taking a class to become profilers from an ex-FBI agent. Then they themselves become targets. One of the classmates, the main character, was stalked by a killer herself in the beginning of the movie. So, you must figure that she took this class because she wanted to understand what was behind those murders, or perhaps to protect herself. Too bad that's what I thought. Because it was nothing of the sort. It become all too predictable and I had the whole thing figured out half-way through the movie. I hate that.I love horror movies so much, that I will even watch bad ones such as Reanimator. But what makes Reanimator so great, is that it was presented in a way that you would take it seriously. You knew what you were getting yourself into watching this movie. Unfortunately, RIPPER tries to be serious, but is unable to provide the substance to do so. In addition, the editing is choppy, and the motives and personalities of the characters are all over the place.Maybe this movie belongs on MTV. Don't waste your time.

IF ANYONE KNOWS, WHO THE KILLER WAS, THEY ARE BETTER THAN ME, I THOUGHT THE PROFESSOR? As 'Teacher' was spelt out, from the last letters of th victims names, but them i thought the blonde girl, as she was on the boat, when some1 fell in the water; but maybe it was Molly all along??? I enjoyed the Film, but seems most didn't!!! So, anyone who can help, with the identity please let me know. I think, i may have to watch it a few times and spot things, i missed first time around. Maybe more gore and violence would of made it better and more sexy scenes, naked girls perhaps? Alex is HOT HOT HOT!!! Anyway let me, know, who you thought, was the KILLER.

Whoever stayed around after filming "Wishmaster 3", to investigate which office supplies could be sold for crack money, was also forced into "Ripper". Which is probably better, but so is being chained to a bear. "Ripper" goes for the tired old whodunit slasher approach, but it has the handicap that you really just don't care. I guess it could be that professor, or that scary inspector guy (he specialises in investigating little girls' bedrooms), but this has so many twists you really just end up picking a character at random, you always have the same chances anyway. The ending is confusing, mainly because the director freely admitted he left in two separate endings just for the sake of confusing everyone. That's just pure professionalism right there. Not a very entertaining B-movie.