Taking Lives
2004
**
Director: D.J. Caruso
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland, Olivier Martinez
A self-loathing serial killer assumes the identities of his victims. So far, so good. Sadly the rest of this thriller is recycled clichés (FBI agents search unlit apartments and basements with Maglites, chase suspects and lose them into a carnival crowd, or pursue suspects by car and end up driving against the traffic). The twists offer no shocks and the ending is especially far-fetched. Based on Michael Pye's novel.
