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Taking Lives
2004
· Movie
· 103 min
D
MEANRANK
53/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4957
- IMDb #4153
- Google retired #3420
- Rotten Tomatoes #4412
- Metacritic #4430
- Letterboxd #4339
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5064
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3748
- Metacritic Critics #4365
- Metacritic Audience #4196
- Criticker #3250
- Kinopoisk #2107
- AlloCiné #4048
- Trakt #3513
Every rating
21–72
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 21, highest is Kinopoisk on 72. Critics average 30, everyone else 58.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →An FBI profiler is called to Montreal to assist in the hunt for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims. She forms a close relationship with a key witness who survived an attack. As the investigation deepens, she begins to suspect that the witness may be much closer to the killer than anyone realizes.
Details
- Director
- D.J. Caruso
- Writer
- Jon Bokenkamp
- Based on
- Taking Lives
- Released
- 19 March 2004
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $45.0M
- Box office
- $65.5M
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