I'd put off watching Jack's Back for quite sometime. I couldn't tell if it was the bland artwork that turned me off or the idea of a modern Jack the Ripper. Something just told me not to bother. I finally bothered and I wish I hadn't.
Jack's Back is exactly what it sounds like. A copycat of Jack the Ripper has been killing hookers in modern day L.A. (well, modern day L.A. of the late 80's) and a young doctor is drawn into his web of terror. Twists and turns abound, but they usually show up because you can feel that the writer got bored with what they were writing and decided to make a sequence a dream or give a character a twin.
There aren't many thrills here, which is the kiss of death for a so-called thriller, but James Spader is good and there are some cool shots of downtown L.A. in the 80's.
Jack's Back is exactly what it sounds like. A copycat of Jack the Ripper has been killing hookers in modern day L.A. (well, modern day L.A. of the late 80's) and a young doctor is drawn into his web of terror. Twists and turns abound, but they usually show up because you can feel that the writer got bored with what they were writing and decided to make a sequence a dream or give a character a twin.
There aren't many thrills here, which is the kiss of death for a so-called thriller, but James Spader is good and there are some cool shots of downtown L.A. in the 80's.