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Title: The Raven (2012)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| John Cusack | ... | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| Luke Evans | ... | Detective Fields | |
| Alice Eve | ... | Emily Hamilton | |
| Brendan Gleeson | ... | Capt. Charles Hamilton | |
| Kevin McNally | ... | Maddux (as Kevin R. McNally) | |
| Oliver Jackson-Cohen | ... | John Cantrell | |
| Jimmy Yuill | ... | Captain Eldridge | |
| Sam Hazeldine | ... | Ivan | |
| Pam Ferris | ... | Mrs. Bradley | |
| Brendan Coyle | ... | Reagan | |
| Adrian Rawlins | ... | Doc Clements | |
| Aidan Feore | ... | Stage Manager | |
| Dave Legeno | ... | Percy | |
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Michael Cronin | ... | Old Gentleman |
| Michael Poole | ... | Professor | |
This movie is set in the mid 1800s and involves poet Edgar Allan Poe. A serial killer is on the loose and murdering people using Poe's descriptions from his published stories and poems. Poe teams up with Detective Fields, a Baltimore policeman to try and catch the killer by using his knowledge of the descriptions. Even though the stories are fictional, they start to become reality and the killer is a step ahead of them. Then it takes on a personal note as Poe's lover becomes a target. Will they stop the killer in time? Written by Michael Hallows Eve
It's a 6 for me. If you are going to make a fictional movie about a real character I think you should really just go for it, make it original, and use some imagination. Edgar Allen Poe seems like a great character to use as inspiration for a very dark, evil, twisted movie. This wasn't one of those.
Cusack as Poe, was OK, not great, not horrible but just OK. The story is one I have seen a few times before. The whole author writes something, serial killer uses it as a blueprint, suddenly the writer is called in and that was the killers plan all along and it becomes personal. Yawn. There was so much potential for this movie, and they turned it in to a played out old story line.
It wasn't bad. After the first ten minutes I figured the rest was going to be a torture to watch. It did get somewhat better, but never rose above OK.