Resurrection

"He's coming."

1999 1h 48m EN

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6.1

MID

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17%

ROTTEN

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6.1

IMDB

★6.1TMDB · 320🥫17%Rotten Tomatoes★6.1IMDB · 11,358

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Synopsis

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A jaded homicide detective has been put on the case of a ruthless killer in the city of Chicago, who leaves a trail of horribly mutilated and dismembered corpses along with perversely ironic biblical quotes.

“He's coming.”

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Cast

Christopher Lambert
Det. John Prudhomme
Leland Orser
Det. Andrew Hollinsworth
Barbara Tyson
Sara Prudhomme
Jeff J.J. Authors
Paramedic
David Cronenberg
Father Rousell
Jayne Eastwood
Dolores Koontz
Rick Fox
Scholfield
Robert Joy
Demus

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Russell Mulcahy
Writers: Christopher Lambert, Brad Mirman
Languages: English, French
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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27 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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2 / 7

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, French.

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3 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Russell Mulcahy, shot by Jonathan Freeman. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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4 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Editor Gordon McClellan shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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5 / 7

CAST

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Christopher Lambert and Leland Orser and Barbara Tyson carry the top of the cast.

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6 / 7

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "He's coming.".

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7 / 7

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0142804 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Russell Mulcahy directs. Jonathan Freeman behind the camera. Gordon McClellan cuts. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, French.

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127 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
2Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, French.
3Directed by Russell Mulcahy, shot by Jonathan Freeman. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Editor Gordon McClellan shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Christopher Lambert and Leland Orser and Barbara Tyson carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "He's coming.".
7IMDB entry: tt0142804 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Classified under 13 themes, including "chicago, illinois", "psychopath", "detective", "fbi".

The technical file

Cinematography: Jonathan Freeman
Editing: Gordon McClellan
Production design: Tim Boyd
Costume design: Quita Alfred
Makeup / hair: Sylvain Cournoyer
Runtime: 108 min · 1h 48m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $10,000,000
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Resurrection (1999)
Rotten Tomatoes: 17% 🥫 Rotten
IMDB rating: 6.1/10 · 11,358 votes
MPAA: R

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Gimly2020-07-26
★ 4/10
Look, I hate cops as much as the next guy, but the ineptitude of every single policeman in this film is just so infuriating. Resurrection could probably have been interesting, the logline certainly made it sound like it was going to be, but it was so surface level. Honestly the motivation that's in the descriptor for this movie was so easy to miss I'm not sure that they really explored it at all. I know Se7en was popular and all, but people didn't like that movie just because it had a murder tableau, it actually had good story and characters in it too. Resurrection does not. Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product.
tmdb280390232022-08-30
★ 4/10
Resurrection is a Se7en clone (complete with your standard copious rain) with no brains but lotsa guts. Instead of the seven deadly sins, the killer targets people named after apostles — five (5) apostles to be exact; I guess the full dozen would have taken too long a time. Additionally, the villain harvests different body parts from his victims in order to “rebuild the boy of Christ.” Rebuild? Jesus was crucified, not hanged, drawn and quartered; why would his body need rebuilding? (now, if it were any of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, that’d be another story). About halfway through the movie, the killer sends Det. John Prudhomme (Christopher Lambert) a tape; part of it is broadcast on the news, and some lady living in an apartment building recognizes the voice as belonging to one of her neighbors, who “seems like a very nice guy, but I bet a lot of those serial killers are like that.” In a twist that would be clever if it weren’t so stupid, the neighbor turns out to be a blind man whom the real killer paid to make the tape. Really. So, according to this dumb broad, “a lot of those serial killers” are "nice guys", and blind? Maybe she thought he was just pretending, but either way isn’t this the kind of detail that might strike a witness as odd enough to at least, you know, mention it to the police? All this nonsense will eventually pay off, however; patient viewers will be rewarded with one of the sickest, most blasphemous visuals visuals ever to grace a horror film, followed by one of the silliest. The former occurs when the almost finished FrankenChrist is unveiled. I say ‘almost finished’ because, for some reason, the killer needs the heart of a baby born after midnight on Easter to a woman named Mary. Everybody got that? Good. Let me see if I can get this straight. The bad guy wants to “rebuild” the body of Christ on time for Resurrection Sunday — implying, like everything else, an adult JC — but he’s going to give it a Baby Jesus heart? This is all madness and no method, but it leads to the second unforgettable (though for very different reasons) image: the killer holding a rubber baby, threatening to drop it from the hospital roof, and Lambert (who in real life can't see a thing without his glasses) catching it in midair.