Jill Rips

Jill Rips (also known as Jill the Ripper and Tied Up[1]) is a 2000 Canadian-American film directed by Anthony Hickox starring Dolph Lundgren, based on a 1987 novel by Scottish writer Frederic Lindsay.

Jill Rips
Official DVD cover
Directed byAnthony Hickox
Written byGareth Wardell
Kevin Bernhardt
Produced byJim Wynorski
Tracee Stanley
Damian Lee
StarringDolph Lundgren
Danielle Brett
CinematographyDavid Pelletier
Edited byBrett Hedlund
Music byThomas Barquee
Steve Gurevitch
Production
companies
Phoenician Entertainment
Franchise Pictures
Distributed bySony Pictures Home Entertainment
Release date
  • 2000 (2000)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

Matt Sorenson, a former boxer and San Francisco cop, now makes a living collecting debts for small businesses. The brutal death of his high-powered younger brother, Michael, changes all that forever. Intent on finding his brother's killer, Sorenson infiltrates the powerful inner world of politics, business intrigue, and casual sex. Rejecting the police and media theory that the murder is the work of a female prostitute, Sorensen's focus falls on the corrupt big city businessman, Jim Conway. His obsession to discover the killer's identity mounts as other men are found murdered in a similar fashion. Sorenson loses all objectivity and becomes a vigilante.

Cast
  • Dolph Lundgren as Matt Sorenson
  • Danielle Brett as Irene
  • Richard Fitzpatrick as Eddie
  • Kristi Angus as Frances
  • Charles Seixas as "Big Jim" Conway
  • Sandi Ross as Mary O.
  • Greg Ellwand as Peerse
  • Victor Pedtrchenko as Joe Jujavia
  • Kylie Bax as Serena

Release

Home media

After a TV premiere on HBO under the alternate title Tied Up in January 2000, the movie was released on DVD on July 4, 2000 by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment as Jill the Ripper (while keeping its original title Jill Rips in other countries).[2]

Reception

Novel reviews

The novel had been described by the Today programme as 'harrowing, but [its] grim, poetic vision makes it the best novel of its kind for years'. The Sunday Times said that 'violent and vicious and brutal, Lindsay's unsparing tale beds down with the imagination like a succubus'. Daily Express called it 'tautly and skillfully written—a genuine, can't-put-it-down, turn-off-the-telly-read'.

References
  1. "JILL RIPS / Jill the Ripper - 2000". Archived from the original on 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2013-12-19.
  2. Jill the Ripper (2000) Dolph Lundgren


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