Rating: - This put Spader on the Map
This little viewed film of the 1980's put James Spader on the map. What a performance! Spader, along with the always reliable Robert Picardo and a surprisely effective Cynthia Gibbs navigate this up-to-date version of the Jack the Ripper Tale. A really creepy film. Enjoy!
Rating: - Effective Thriller
Plot: a copycat killer comes back 100 years later and starts imitating the murders of Jack the Ripper. James Spader plays Jack, a med student who works in a clinic and is involved in local politics. At the same time he plays his own 'twin brother' who after the first Spader gets killed he starts to investigate his own twin brothers death. They seem to have had some kind of connection, he started dreaming of his own brothers death/having flashbacks, etc...
His brother dies at the hands of who we think is Jack the Ripper at first..or is he?...now this 'twin' is trying to find the killer ... Read More
Rating: - suuuuuuuuuucked
let me first say that i am a fan of both james spader and cynthia gibb. but they are the only good things about this movie.aside from them the acting is horrible,the direction is horrible,and the story is horrible.i'd like to think that i know a turkey when i see one and for the life of me cannot figure out why this gets such good reviews,especially 5 stars?! those expecting an 80's version of From Hell will sorely be disappointed.nothing really happens in the film and the whole movie is predictable,at least i knew the ending shortly into the movie.so no there are no suprises,no twist ending,ok there ... Read More
Rating: - Completely overlooked 80's crime/thriller.
Someone is killing prostitutes in a very Jack The Ripper-esque fashion on the 100 year anniversaries of The Ripper's original murders. A med student (Spader) gets caught up in the last murder and winds up meeting a tragic fate. Now his twin brother (also played by Spader) is out to find the man responsible for his death. In turn, he gets caught up in the middle of the murder case in the process. Oh, and he has to clear his own name because he is a suspect in the before mentioned case AND also a suspect in his own brothers murder.
Jack's Back is an odd movie and kind of deceiving. You see, ... Read More
Rating: - Twice The Spader...Twice The Suspense!
This could've simply been one of those formulaic pieces of Eighties fluff spawned by the likes of THE LOST BOYS, where you have the ADD-style MTV editing, lots of slick cinematography and a cool-if-creepy soundtrack, anchored by a good theme song, (which "Red Harvest Comes" really is.) What makes JACK different from all the rest is that it's anchored by a really good performance from...JAMES SPADER???
Until "sex, lies and videotape," I had narrow-mindedly ghettoized Spader into a good looking, priggy jerk, identifying him mostly with the kind of roles he usually played in the John Hughes movies...the ... Read More
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