The Ninth Gate 1999 123movies

Watch: The Ninth Gate 1999 123movies, Full Movie Online – In New York, the money-driven dealer Dean Corso is a rare-books expert and partner of Bernie, who owns a bookstore. He is contacted by the renowned collector of books about the devil Boris Balkan, who has just acquired the rare The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows from the collector Andrew Telfer, to verify whether his book is authentic or a forgery. Balkan explains that the book was written by the writer Aristide Torchia, in 1666, with Lucifer and he was burned at the stake with his entire work. There are only three exemplars of The Nine Gates and in accordance with the legend, its nine engravings form a riddle to conjure the devil. The skeptical Corso accepts the assignment and has to fly to Sintra, Portugal, and Paris, France, to contact the owners Victor Fargas and Baroness Kessler and find the genuine exemplar for Balkan. Meanwhile, he asks Bernie to hide the rare book. Before traveling to Europe, the widow Liana Telfer wants to retrieve the book and has sex with Corso, but he does not accept her offer. When Corso returns to Bernie’s bookstore, he finds his friend murdered in the same position of an engraving. Corso travels to Toledo, Spain, to meet the Ceniza twin brothers and learn more about The Nine Gates. During his journey in Europe, Corso is pursued by Liana and her bodyguard, who belong to the sect The Order of the Silver Serpents, and is protected by a mysterious Girl with supernatural powers. Meanwhile, the owners of the two other exemplars of The Nine Gates are murdered. Corso becomes obsessed with the book and discloses the truth about it..
Plot: An all-expenses-paid international search for a rare copy of the book ‘The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows’ brings an unscrupulous book dealer deep into a world of murder, double-dealing and satanic worship.
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Ratings:

	6.7/10 Votes: 183,580
	43% | RottenTomatoes
	44/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 2455 Popularity: 21.515 | TMDB

Reviews:

The movie is a riddle too
Roman Polanski’s movies aren’t about shooting and destruction like so many other movies these days, his movies are about people and their remarkable adventures. The Ninth Gate is supposed to be a thriller or horror movie but it is neither. The Ninth Gate is an occult movie and that is a whole different ballpark.

spoilers ahead!

‘You have before you the mystery of which men have dreamed throughout the centuries. Thousands have died an agonizing death in hopes of just a glimpse of what you’re about to see!’ Those words are spoken by Boris Balkan, moments before he sets himself on fire in an attempt to raise the devil. The Ninth Gate is not only a movie about occultism, it is an occult movie by itself. First there is of course the obvious story that most people find quite disappointing BUT under the surface there is the real story that is only understood by those who are fairly familiar with symbolism and occultism.

Although The Ninth gate is based on just a part of the book El Club Dumas, it is nevertheless a clever story of its own.

The movie is about a riddle that is supposed to be hidden in three books, in the end that riddle is solved by Dean Corso. The movie itself contains a riddle and that riddle is to be solved by us. Besides the engravings, lots of symbolism and hints will help us understand the meaning of several strange events and eventually the meaning of what the story is all about and what happened to Balkan and Corso. The plot is created around a joke, a joke that is based on a misunderstanding. This makes a movie that one needs to see more than once, I bought the DVD and saw it over twenty times. The story gets better every time you watch it, pay attention to even the smallest details like the color of the mysterious girl’s socks, there is a good reason why Corso has a shoulder bag and an overcoat he never seems to part from, until the ‘notorious’ very last scene; shoulder bag and overcoat are gone… Aren’t you curious about the meaning of broken glasses in combination of a mark between the eyes? Search the internet for the answers to the questions you have. It’s fun if you like to solve riddles, I had a great time.

Stylish European backgrounds add flavor to otherwise enigmatic story…
Roman Polanski’s stylish direction is a big plus factor in being able to appreciate THE NINTH GATE for the handsomely photographed thriller that it is in a tale about a man’s quest for the only genuine volume of a work penned by the Devil when only three such volumes exist. The mission is assigned to a sleazy book dealer always on the lookout for a sweetheart deal (JOHNNY DEPP who wears glasses to appear scholarly) and it is his acceptance of that mission from an equally shady publishing magnate (FRANK LANGELLA, who literally phones in his performance), that makes the film a clever psychological thriller.

For all its cleverness, it does leave one stumbling in the dark toward the end which has a climax that is more confusing than enlightening. It’s the kind of ending open to a host of interpretations and perhaps it was the enigma that puzzled too many in the audience and kept the film from having the sort of popularity it deserved.

Depp is not as quirky as usual in his characterization and perhaps this is why his fans failed to recognize the full merits of the piece. It’s the kind of story that Alfred Hitchcock would have enjoyed filming and no doubt, for added insurance, he would have summoned Bernard Herrmann to write the background score. Perhaps the film would have risen to the level of some of Hitch’s best works–but here, unfortunately, it’s not one of Polanski’s best.

Having said that, it’s definitely worth viewing for an interesting tour of European locales, striking color photography of handsome sites, and a few intriguing twists along the journey into darkness. If it’s not first rate, at least it tries.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 13 min (133 min)
Budget 38000000
Revenue 58401898
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Mystery, Thriller
Director Roman Polanski
Writer Arturo Pérez-Reverte, John Brownjohn, Enrique Urbizu
Actors Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin
Country France, Spain
Awards 2 wins & 5 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arriflex 535, Cooke S4 Lenses, Moviecam SL, Cooke S4 Lenses
Laboratory Laboratoires Éclair, Paris, France (film processing)
Film Length 3,660 m (Finland)
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman EXR 50D 5245, EXR 100T 5248, Kodak Vision 320T 5277)
Cinematographic Process Super 35
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic)