Taking Lives

Taking Lives (2004) starring Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland, Gena Rowlands. FBI profiler (Jolie) travels to Canada to help investigate a serial killer. When a witness (Hawke) turns up, she fears that her attraction to him may compromise the investigation, but the Canadian police talk her into staying on. There are several twists and turns to the movie's plot from this point on, but they're just too weird to be believed. For someone who's supposed to be an FBI agent, Jolie shows surprisingly weak fighting skills. Sutherland, who appears in several key scenes, turns out to be just one gigantic red herring. (The film has subtitles in English for the hearing-impaired, as well as closed captions.) Grade: B