Taking Lives
2004 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Illeana Scott (Angelina Jolie) is a special agent with the FBI who has a reputation for using offbeat methods, but also boasts a strong record as a criminal profiler. Scott is called in by a former Quantico colleague (Tcheky Karyo) to assist two Canadian police detectives, Paquette (Olivier Martinez) and Duval (Jean-Hugues Anglade), who are on the trail of a serial killer who has been doing business in and around Montreal for close to two decades. The murderer has a history of assimilating many aspects of the lives of his victims after he kills them, but there's been a witness to his most recent crime. Art gallery owner James Costa (Ethan Hawke) saw the killer during an assault, and now finds himself working as an only marginally willing decoy for Scott. As Scott and Costa follow the killer's trail, they find themselves becoming attracted to one another, which is not necessarily a comfort to Scott as she finds her quarry moving closer and closer.
Direction D.J. Caruso
Cast Angelina Jolie · Ethan Hawke · Kiefer Sutherland · Olivier Martínez · Tchéky Karyo · Jean-Hugues Anglade · Gena Rowlands · Paul Dano · Justin Chatwin · André Lacoste · Billy Two Rivers · Richard Lemire · Julien Poulin · Christian Tessier · Dominique Briand · Alex Sol · Shawn Roberts · Henri Pardo · Marie-Josée Croze · Judith Baribeau · Emmanuel Bilodeau · Vince Grant · Andy Bradshaw · Marcel Jeannin · Brett Watson · David Eisner · Lois Dellar
Soundtrack Philip Glass
Screenplay Jon Bokenkamp · Michael Pye
Cinematography Amir M. Mokri
Original title Taking Lives
5.5
12K votes (FilmAffinity)
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