The film starts in the early 1980s. Young Martin Asher took a bus for Canada. He meets another teen on the bus, Matt Soulsby. When the bus broke down they decided to rent a car and drive to Seattle. On the road the car gets a flat tire, and Matt starts changing the tire. Martin comments on how he and Matt are about the same height, and in that moment he quickly pushes Matt in the way of an oncoming truck causing a huge accident where Matt and the driver both die. He took Matt... (Full plot summary below)
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The film starts in the early 1980s. Young Martin Asher took a bus for Canada. He meets another teen on the bus, Matt Soulsby. When the bus broke down they decided to rent a car and drive to Seattle. On the road the car gets a flat tire, and Matt starts changing the tire. Martin comments on how he and Matt are about the same height, and in that moment he quickly pushes Matt in the way of an oncoming truck causing a huge accident where Matt and the driver both die. He took Matt's guitar and left singing like Matt did. Twenty years later, an FBI profiler, Illeana Scott comes to Canada to help hunt down the now serial killer Martin Asher who killed multiple men and lived by their identities. Martin's mother claims that she saw Martin in Quebec city and she tells the police that Martin is evil. The police also has an eyewitness James Costa who saw Asher kill his last victim...
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| Cinema SignalsJules BrennerA serial killer yarn whose taste and story structure appeals more to mental fascination than to a dependence on baser attractions. |
| Film Journal InternationalDavid NohCaruso sets up an initially intriguing premise, however gruesome, that unfortunately devolves into a welter of aimlessness, too many red herrings and B-movie hammy performances. |
| Christianity TodayPeter T. ChattawayThe film's villain may take fictitious lives, but the film itself takes up real time that could be spent on better things. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldBy the time we get to the unsurprising surprise ending, what seemed innovative and challenging in Taking Lives has lost its juice and reverted to formula form, and we leave the theater with that same old let-down feeling of having endured a ritual one more time. |
| Laramie Movie ScopeRobert RotenA solid police thriller with a few scares and some plot twists. |
| MovieJuice!Mark Ramsey"Normally," says one cop, "finding lips that big in Montreal means visiting the local boulangerie and placing two loaves of French bread under your nose." |
| Denver Rocky Mountain NewsRobert DenersteinA thriller that provides jolts - and not enough lasting kick. |
| Flick FilosopherMaryAnn Johanson[W]e're meant to believe that [Hawke] is so intensely seductive that [Jolie] cannot resist him. Which would be laughable if it weren't so boring. |
| FilmStew.comTodd GilchristSadly, nothing in this thriller comes close to the intensity of last year's media coverage of star Ethan Hawke's alleged infidelities on location in Montreal. |
| State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL)Paul PovseAt a certain point, Taking Lives gives up any pretense toward sense and starts piling up insanely improbable extravagances. |
