...and the line between drama and melodrama proves to be very inconsistent in this handsomely-mounted but rather dreary Victorian murder-mystery. The film is designed very carefully, with lots of period detail, big spaces and luridly-coloured and artfully-lit mise-en-scene. Jane Goldman's script is reasonably solid if mechanical in its unfolding police investigation of a spate of London murders, but the delivery of dialogue is mostly (consciously?) relentlessly flat. The effort is to be admired, especially the way in which everything is pulled together at the end, but the film does not entertain that much.
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