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‘Damaged’ Review: Samuel L. Jackson and Vincent Cassel Headline a Slick but Tepid Serial Killer Thriller
Wobbly material lets down Terry McDonough’s theatrical debut, 'Damaged,' a gory Edinburgh-set mystery starring Samuel L. Jackson and Vincent Cassel.
At their least, the myriad serial-killer movies that followed in the imitative wake of “Se7en” three decades ago have gotten the grisly part down, but find compelling suspense, atmospherics and original narrative ideas harder to come by. The gruesome condition in which her remains are discovered — extremities arranged in an “inverted cross,” other Satanic symbols, entire torso missing — distinctly echoes that of five people previously slain in Chicago, their killer never found. When a second woman meets the same fate, local investigators Boyd (Capaldi) and Kessler (Kate Dickie) get joined by Yank cop Lawson (Jackson), who had worked on those now-cold cases.
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