Malkovich is predictably great as Jekyll/Hyde but the script wanders around aimlessly and includes an entirely pointless subplot concerning Mary's parents.

The mainstream big screen proved the wrong venue for this, which became a monstrous box-office and critical cropper. This might have enjoyed a kinder reception had it arrived as a PBS or A&E TV movie, where its sometimes funereal pacing, visual understatement, and unrelievedly dreary mise-en-scene would have been less glaring. Frears retells the Jekyll and Hyde saga from the eponymous servant's POV, resulting in "Jekyll & Hyde" Meets "Upstairs, Downstairs"

A lot of people pan Roberts' acting in this, but I think she did a good job. The trouble is people expect her to be the same plucky character she always plays, and that's not the character of Mary Reilly. This film is an intelligent, tense, but very gray and gloomy retelling of the Jekyll/Hyde story, that with the exception of its narrator is very close in ways to the book, particularly visible in the production design. Malkovich is a little too forced in the role of Jekyll/Hyde, but watchable.

36.500

ok

Incredibly boring.

Poor.

Who the hell thought this movie was a good idea? No, really. Roberts and Malkovich are terrible, the script is terrible, the sets are ugly and there's really no reason to see this.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde beijng seen in a close up. Very good.

Good remake of classic Frankenstein tale.

i was falling asleep in the theater.