 don't know if this helped. Hey guys, very random review here. Just watched the ninth gate. It just appeared on Netflix. I'm always interested in late 90s movies that Johnny Depp did because he did a few that were kind of like, not great, but they weren't bad either. Like Nick of Time is a one good example I can think of. This movie was also directed by well-known statutory rapist Roman Polanski. At least to say this movie's very French. This film follows Johnny Depp's character Corso. A Adam Sandler like hustler of rare and exotic books about Satan if you will. He's going around trying to authenticate one of three different books all supposedly co-written by Yolusa for a boy himself. What happens is a series of incredibly bizarre comedic yet oddly dated sort of events that happen to the characters that he comes across. After being hired out by Richard Nixon to try and authenticate his book about the devil he goes and meets these two other people who have the other two copies and they meet incredibly hysteric ends. Very hysterical. And this whole movie is just hysterical. How the film is shot, the music that accompanies it and just how the characters interact with the world reminds me of like a 70s episode of something. Oddly enough the pink panther kept on coming to mind. The pink fucking panther! There's times where the music made me think that it was literally sneaky music. Just this weird ding ding ding ding ding ding ding music going on in the background and it just weirded me out the whole time. The music never really maxed what was going on or it was over dramatic. When the drama was already at a top 10 there are several moments in the film where I am just at the absolute bizarreity of it. The film isn't even put together that well. As I said it feels like it's from the 70s but this was made two years prior to the Millennium Bug. There are some terrible terrible map painting effects whether it's the guys in the car or there's a point where they're in front of this building that's kind of on fire but it's not it's just terrible fucking shot. Johnny Depp's acting is laughable in this movie. He's either kind of just dead inside or he's making horrible horrible noises to other people. Everyone else is a dead pan character especially the woman who keeps accompanying him this mysterious woman who by the way is Roman Polanski's wife so that makes the end scene with her in depth even more weird. The film is so uncertain with what it's actually telling you that it pulls this rug out from under you and the movie literally just ends. I'm not saying that it actually kind of comes to an end rapidly it just full-on breaks. It hits a cement fucking wall that stops so fast. Apparently this ending is different from that of the book it more so kind of incorporates that supernatural side whereas the book was more of a realist sort of thing and I don't know I can see either one being a bad ending because this ending I didn't think was that great. There are some people who really enjoyed this movie there are some who kind of find a fascination with it and I guess I can kind of understand if you have enough of this but it's just a bizarre movie it's very kind of Frenchy kind of film just bizarre not good bizarre just bizarre I'll never watch this again and I don't care how many of y'all like oh you don't understand what's going on I can understand when it's a bad movie when there's bad acting and bad cinematography the camera shakes several times in the movie it bumps into stuff there's so many bad shots in this movie the ninth gate gets a 2 out of 7. Anyways guys that's all for me I hope you enjoyed this review if you did leave a like and if you're interested in more subscribe otherwise I'm gonna finish this that was two hours of a waste of time thanks for watching the video my name is Nitz and you might remember me from the animated cult classic TV show undergrads it's been a while but I'm happy to say the click is finally getting back together in an all-new movie thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign but we are still asking for your support to see any and all updates about the upcoming undergrads movie be sure to check out and like the bring back undergrads Facebook page and with any luck we'll see you guys soon