Why watch a movie that been butchered by the censur board. All the juicy bits have been chopped off. What you have in the end is a bland version that would make Mr. Ripper himself rool in his grave.
Make no mistake, From Hell is a tale of Jack The Ripper, the person (s?) who ripped through the entrails and fabric of Victorian London in 1888 by brutally butchering streetwalkers in such gore that laid waste to any theory that God protected at least in death. Make no mistake? That's 'cos you aren't sure what the Hughes brothers are trying to depict here - the psyche of an opium addict, the gaslight-cobblestone England of the 1900s with all its squalor and class-politics, or the romance between a desolate cop and a spirited hooker.
The mistake that the creators of this period film make....