Sunday, January 11, 2015

Taking Lives (2004)

Theft of identity - a crime that is widely known: by selecting the victim and after procuring the wrong data, the scammer can impersonate another person. However, the elusive maniac, for twenty years hunted in North America raised this type of crime to a whole new level. Unknown impostor does not just use someone else's credit card, and kills his victims and trying on their lives, managing not to attract the attention of the police. For a maniac leaves only the bodies of the victims - dead bodies, which would seem to have nothing to do with each other and do not give any clues.

However, the picture starts to look like what is happening is quite active when the investigation is taken by the FBI employee Illyana Scott. Found an association between a corpse, just found in Montreal and a lot of other things that have not been disclosed, Illyana realizes that he is dealing with inventive and unusual maniac, and decides to grab it, come what may. During the investigation of the murder in Montreal, she meets James Costa - witness who was on the scene of the crime and, apparently, could be the next victim of a serial killer.

Year: 2004
Country: United States
Genre: Thriller, Mystery
Duration: 1:38:46

Directed by: DJ Caruso
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland, Gena Rowlands, Olivier Martinez, Checks Karyo, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Paul Dano, Justin Chatwin, Andre Lacoste

3 comments:

  1. St-Jovite, Canada, 1983. The bus familiar two guys. Deciding to continue their journey together, they buy the car and go on a journey, which darkens the damage to the machine. While one of them is engaged in repair and another for no apparent reason suddenly pushes him under the wheels of a passing car. Making sure that no one sees, he breaks the guy's face, appropriates his things and continues its journey alone ...

    Montreal, Canada, 20 years later. At the construction site found the corpse of an unknown young man. The police have no clues, and therefore entrust the investigation FBI Special Agent Illian Scott (Angelina Jolie). The girl manages to find a connection to the murder of a construction site with other unsolved murders over the years. Unusual serial killer who they are looking for is different in that kills its victims in order to then live their lives. He not only lived in their apartments, and uses the money, but also pays taxes. Again found the corpse of an unknown man leads the investigation to a certain James Costa (Ethan Hawke), who becomes a witness to a crime. With it is possible to obtain a description of the killer. After talking with the witness and learn some of the features of his life, Illian able to understand that Costa - the next victim of an unknown assassin. They decide to use it as bait to catch a serial killer. Meanwhile, the police come calling with information about phones of dead men. This allows you to reach a certain Rebecca Asher (Gena Rowlands), which recently announced that allegedly saw her dead son on the ferry, where he worked for one of the victims of a maniac. After talking with a woman, Illyana learns about her son - Martin Asher, who as a teenager was killed under mysterious circumstances and whose mother was allegedly seen on the ferry alive and unharmed. Also, special agent found out that Martin had a twin brother, who clearly loved his mother more. Even as a child he had to save Martin died. After that Martin kept to himself, ran away from home and soon died. Investigating, Illian not detect that Asher is a serial killer. He faked his own death, similar to pushing myself a car guy (that we see in the beginning of the film). Having a clear mental problems because of the relationship with his mother, he did not want to be who he is, so it will continue to kill.

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  2. Since it is clear that the perpetrator chose the next victim James Costa, the police decided to keep him. In a short time there and the criminal himself, who can not catch, so James, as a valuable witness and future victim, decides to go to Toronto. But during the commission killer manages to kidnap him, while killing a police officer. During the chase, and manages to kill the murderer himself. Case closed. James Costa, throughout the investigation has signs of attention Illian, which he also cute, comes to the hotel after just happened to see it. They spend the night together. On the morning of Illian and James are sent together to the identification of the perpetrator. Should come Rebecca Asher and identify the body. During the identification of a woman, having examined the body and without saying anything goes. Illyana follows her, but she manages to have to sit in the elevator. Illyana down the stairs to talk to her. Going to the elevator, Illyana sees it as the tortured body of the unfortunate woman and ... James Costa, who covered in blood and holding her head. She understands that much wrong, and in fact, James Costa is Martin Asher, who skillfully led by the nose all the whole time. He killed his mother, which he regarded as guilty of all that had happened to him. The doors close and Illiana, which is in shock, no time to do anything.

    As a result, it appears that the criminal who watched Bones / Escher and kidnapped him is Christopher Hart (Kiefer Sutherland) - a common thief, which Escher had money. And in fact, everything that happened before, Escher invented to confuse the investigation. All in shock and trying to calculate Escher hot pursuit, but he was far away and found a new victim. Most shocked Illian. How could she not understand who is actually Costa and do not see the murderer ?! Shock to her also becomes a call from an unknown phone Escher. He tells her that they are similar, and that it also has something abnormal. On a call fails to locate him, but in vain. Maniac disappears again. For their mistakes Illyana fired from the FBI.

    7 months later. Illyana lives at home in Pennsylvania and was expecting a child. She occasionally chosen to town to buy children's clothes or something for the house, which is located in the suburbs. At home, she already hard preparing for the birth of children, namely children, as two children's cots. One day after returning from the city she finds at home Martin, who all this time watching her and knew that she was expecting twins, and it was his children. He invites her to start all over again and become a family. Illyana refuses, saying also that these children are not his, but James Costa, whom she knew. It takes him out of himself. He beats her. In a fit of rage, Martin grabs the scissors and stabs them in the stomach Illian, saying it would not allow these children to be born. At this point, in response Illyana plunges scissors in his chest, and before dying maniac relieves stomach invoice, showing him thus, that the whole story of her dismissal and pregnancy just a trap to catch him at last. Martin dies. Illyana calls the FBI to report that the job is done.

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  3. Nimble and elusive killer about twenty years eluded justice, living the life of their victims. He uses their names, credit cards, bills and even pay taxes for them creating the appearance of the lives of their victims. Montreal detectives leading the investigation of complex crimes stalled unable to understand the motives of a serial killer. The case is assigned an FBI agent Scott Illian, which uses an unconventional approach to the investigation of cases.
    Illian will conduct a thorough analysis of all cases, to understand what motivates a murderer to further his capture, but to her horror, she discovers that maniac chameleon knows too much about her.

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