Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Powerful

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

This a great movie. It is based on the book Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde. Told from the prospective of one of Dr.Jekyll servants. This movie as great acting. It also has a great story line. It also as great special effects. This is a story of how a Doctor discovers that man has two souls and good one and evil one. He tries to serpent the two. Soul he creates a formula that brings out his evil side. Then it starts to take him over. This one of the best remake ever. It is one of the scariest movies you will ever see. It is very intense. There are not very many movie scarier then Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde (1931). This is one of them. I need more lines and I am running out of thing to say.

recreation of Victorian atmosphere. version of old story. inspired cast. ivory skin of central character. and John Malkovich. a film like a visit in museum. each piece on perfect place, each step as key for a treasure. strange flavor, cold touch. and air of love story. maybe, it is not convincing. but it is beautiful. and delicate like a silk butterfly. it is not very realistic but charm of each performance is necessary brick for a not really bad building. it is a kind of travel and fascination of viewer is secret satisfaction to know the truth at beginning. sure, Julia Roberts is not extraordinary but her work is correct. and this fact is important. like sign of a meeting between two fascinating actors.

The movie Mary Reilly, is the tale about good and evil. And how the two tore apart the soul of one man,driving him to madness.This man was a doctor by day and a killer by night.He was a healer of man loved by all who knew him.And at night he was someone that was feared by all that he meant a long the streets.He would have black outs and could not remember what he did at all.He killed many people, got away with it for a long time because; his other half would hide him in the darkness of his mind. Julia Roberts (aka Mary Reilly) played the part very well. I loved this movie because,I feel torn between my good and bad half.We all have times when we feel this way. But there are some people that do not know the difference between the two.The story Mary Reilly was Written by Valerie Martin.The other name for this dark tale is Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde. By Robert Louis Stevenson. This is my mom's take on this tale of good vs evil, within ones self! mine is the two worked well together , in this dark thriller. John Malkovich , portrayed both characters equally well ! He really made me believe he had two totally different personalities. He was that convincing, I too loved this movie.

For me, this was the only version that worked—of the few that I know. Very atmospheric. It also had a good notion of what it is that makes RLS's novel so interesting. So to me it's no surprise that "Reilly" was nowadays quite unsuccessful. More power to its fans!Mme Roberts' performance has here very fine qualities—qualities of restraint and self-effacing that work for the movie and also reveal in a very effective way Mme Roberts' high understanding of her art .She is very good.It also absolutely revealed to me Malkovich as the extremely fine actor that he is. There are, for me, two films that exquisitely showcase Malkovich's art—this "Jekyll", and a Tournier adaptation, made by a German director (The Ogre ,by Volker Schlöndorff). These are two movies that I enormously admire.They are strikingly achieved films,and also very good parts, and I much prefer them to Malkovich's roles in The Glass Menagerie (1987) ,Shadows and Fog (1992),Of Mice and Men (1992),Con Air (1997) ,Al Di Là Delle Nuvole (1995),Les Misérables,etc..Yet the best thing in this "Reilly" is its visionary nature and visionary sense—in the psychological sense. It has this surreal visionary gusto that I've appreciated the most. It plays like a film that sets itself up for something. I guess the famous critics couldn't reduce it to any political/_deconstructivist /academic agenda—"Reilly" is a mere vision—so it meant nothing to them! Fortunately, "Reilly" doesn't look mainstream in the Hollywoodian way—it really is of an independent, original conception. It's violent and attractive and intense and compact.The usual thesis is that Stevenson meant evil and good can cohabit in the same human individual. Yet Chesterton once rectified this and wrote: no, on the contrary, Stevenson obviously meant evil and good can't cohabit in the same person. The first will devour the second."Reilly" has some kind of a visionary life and liveliness. Also a force.