Monday, May 2, 2011

Review: National Geographic: Finding Jack the Ripper


Jack the Ripper is probably among the worlds most, if not the most, well-known «cold cases». Even thoguh Jack the Ripper didnt kill that many people compared to other serial killers, and that his target group was limited to only street girls, it was what he did to the dead bodies that made him the legend he is today. His kills was pretty regular and fast, but afterwards, he cut out organs from their bodies. According to one of the experts in this documentary, the killer got sexual satisfaction out of doing this, and that was his motive too.

This documentary aimes, as the title may indicate, to find the killer behind the name. Over hundred candidates has been suggested over the years, and who it was, will probably never be known, but its still fun to speculate. This documentary fails dramatically imideatly by pretending its possible – several decades later, with the help from a couple of retired police investigators and a camera team to solve the riddle. It cant get more stereotypical american then this.

Over all this documentary sucked. It was not entertaining, it was not interesting, it bored the hell out of me, and the whole concept was in fact plain stupid. You have probably already guessed the score, and yes, this will be the first on the blog to get 1 out of 6. And the only reason for that, is that my scale wont allow me to give anything lower. I will strongly recommend to not see this. Its just a waste of time. Go to sleep for an hour instead.
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32 comments:

  1. edMay 3, 2011 at 10:24 AM

    thanks for giving me the heads up

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  2. gmanMay 3, 2011 at 10:33 AM

    k onto it! one hour of sleep here i come! :P

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  3. GhekoMay 3, 2011 at 11:10 AM

    He's famous for only killing 6 people, Charlie Manson is famous and he didn't directly kill anyone!

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  4. Nom de PlumeMay 3, 2011 at 11:22 AM

    lol NG do seem to show a lot of crappily knocked together documentaries!

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  5. LealeepoMay 3, 2011 at 11:31 AM

    Jack the Ripper is a creepy issue but if u say that this documentation is a waste of time i believe you. Going to take a nap instead.

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  6. K.V.RMay 3, 2011 at 11:32 AM

    He's my favorite of all time

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  7. MikeMay 3, 2011 at 11:34 AM

    I'll make sure to avoid it, thanks for the info!

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  8. From The KitchenMay 3, 2011 at 11:41 AM

    Good to know. I love the documentaries that actually shine some light on mysteries like this one, but the ones that are bad are just plain terrible.

    Thanks for the heads up.

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  9. J TMay 3, 2011 at 11:56 AM

    Hey Gheko, Charlie Manson did actually directly kill a few people. The bulk of the murders were just done by his followers

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  10. sp3nnyMay 3, 2011 at 1:36 PM

    too bad, that could have been really interesting

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  11. ZachMay 3, 2011 at 1:42 PM

    Well thanks for the heads up, I like watching documentaries on things like this but I'll pass

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  12. MikeMay 3, 2011 at 1:51 PM

    I thought it would be good so thanks for the warning

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  13. AnonymousMay 3, 2011 at 3:35 PM

    Hmm, I already nkow the story of jack the ripper, I guess I'll skip this one :)

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  14. Ante BabajaMay 3, 2011 at 3:53 PM

    i love documentaries but i hate national geographic documentaries

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  15. Cosmonaut MusicMay 3, 2011 at 7:40 PM

    ill make sure to skip this one! haha post some good ones though

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  16. 123mikeyd123May 4, 2011 at 5:49 AM

    oh what a bore, i saw this doco a few says ago what a waste of my time

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  17. BenjyMay 4, 2011 at 6:22 AM

    Thanks for this review, lucky i didn't waste $10 for renting this.

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  18. AnonymousMay 4, 2011 at 6:26 AM

    Haven't seen it, but if you disliked it so much ill definitly avoid it !

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  19. AnonymooseMay 4, 2011 at 6:38 AM

    Ah.
    You saved an hour for me, sir.

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  20. choikestaMay 4, 2011 at 6:43 AM

    Hmm I usually like documentaries like this

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  21. Juan Pablo CardenasMay 4, 2011 at 3:35 PM

    They don't make documentaries like they used to, lol. I'll try to avoid this one, too bad, it could have been interesting.

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  22. logo messMay 4, 2011 at 4:43 PM

    sexual satisfatction :) interesting

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  23. sewingincirclesMay 4, 2011 at 6:21 PM

    Saved me some time then.

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  24. LuisMay 4, 2011 at 6:43 PM

    Thanks for the advice

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  25. SaysMichaelMay 4, 2011 at 7:03 PM

    I enjoyed your blog!

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  26. SlushMay 5, 2011 at 4:26 AM

    Good thing you told me. I had this DVR'd

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  27. IntramanMay 5, 2011 at 5:21 PM

    thanks for letting me know about this show, i love stories about jack the ripper

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  28. 1HipHopBlogMay 5, 2011 at 8:26 PM

    Sounds awesome, I want to check it out now.

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  29. AbletonianMay 6, 2011 at 7:38 AM

    DEfinitely gonna find this! thanks

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  30. BluRayBoyMay 6, 2011 at 9:47 AM

    Man I've seen this one too and it was soooo boring! It baffles me as to how they turned such interesting subject matter into a snoozefest. I don't get much time to see these docs anymore so I'm gonna follow to see what else is out there!

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  31. João RodriguesMay 6, 2011 at 12:38 PM

    Gonna whatch it!

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  32. JohnathanMay 9, 2011 at 7:36 AM

    "pretending its possible – several decades later, with the help from a couple of retired police investigators and a camera team to solve the riddle." Ugh god I HATE documentaries like this... thanks for the warning.

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