The Ninth Gate

AKA:
Neuvième porte, La (France)
Novena puerta, La (Spain)

Written by:
Arturo Pérez-Reverte (novel)
John Brownjohn (screenplay)

Directed by:
Roman Polanski

Made in:
Spain, France, & USA in 1999

Actors:
Johnny Depp .... Dean Corso
Frank Langella .... Boris Balkan
Lena Olin .... Liana Telfer
Emmanuelle Seigner .... The Girl
Barbara Jefford .... Baroness Kessler
Jack Taylor .... Victor Fargas
José López Rodero .... Pablo & Pedro Ceniza/1st & 2nd Workmen (as Jose Lopez Rodero)
Tony Amoni .... Liana's Bodyguard
James Russo .... Bernie
Willy Holt .... Andrew Telfer
Allen Garfield .... Witkin

Plot:
Rare book sleuth Dean Corso has been hired to find the two other existing copies of the seventeenth-century Book of the Nine Doors to the Kingdom of Darkness, reputed to hold the key to conjuring Satan. He travels from Madrid to Paris in search of the Book of the Nine Doors. IMDB

Review:
One of the longest pre-credit movie introductions ever. :/

Johnny Depp did okay in this movie. And the movie itself is pretty okay, too..
It is just the end of the movie that is really bad. :/

I think I expected a little too much from the movie.
But it was a good role for Johnny Depp. A very different character.
I really liked the plot ... but after he found the 3rd book, it just went downhill from there. :/

For the majority of the movie:










For most of the actors and the ending of the movie: