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Taking Lives

Thriller

Directed by D.J. Caruso

Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Her most promising lead is a museum employee who might be the killer's only eyewitness. From TMDB

25 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, TMDB reviews, Mastodon) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 3, 2026 · How this works

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Taking Lives is a 2004 thriller film, directed by D.J. Caruso, starring Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke and Kiefer Sutherland.

  • 22 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, TMDB reviews, Mastodon
  • posts span Aug 13, 2023 to Nov 3, 2026

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  • dawn of the debb @debbshock.comBluesky · Apr 7, 2026

    speaking of Angelina Jolie, my love, if you have never seen Salt, the movie, rectify that right away she's fucking amazing in it and great plot also Taking Lives with Ethan Hawke.

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  • 🎃 The Wicker Amber 🎃 @elementalamber.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 3, 2026

    Tonight‘s Movie Amber Hasn’t Seen is TAKING LIVES (2004).

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  • Chris A Field, Otherverse Games @otherverseg.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 13, 2025

    I used to love the Dollar Cinema in the mall in Corpus Christi. Always crowded and the crowd always got into the movie. Watching Taking Lives in a packed theater. We all shrieked in unison at the final jump scare than riotous laughter that the movie got us so good.

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  • Chris A Field, Otherverse Games @otherverseg.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 23, 2025

    Possession Movie: The Fallen Sci-Fi, Non Aliens: Pandorum Body Horror: The Fly Serial Killer Non-Slasher: Taking Lives Man Vs Nature: The Martian Horror Icon: Freddy Krueger Found Footage: Not a fan ADMITTEDLY TERRIBLE HORROR MOVIE YOU LOVE ANYWAY: Jason X

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  • Raised On Radio 👻✨ 📻🦇🎃🎶 @raisedonradio.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 5, 2025

    Day 17- #SoundtrackChallenge - (Songs discovered via the movies/TV). ▶️ U2 - Bad (1984) This is one of the few U2 songs I actually really like. It's featured in the 2004 film "Taking Lives", starring Angelina Jolie & Ethan Hawke. #musicsky #U2 #Bono #80smusic open.spotify.com/track/6TQ7XV...

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  • Wende Morgaine (she/her) @wendemorgaine.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 5, 2025

    @geekwiththat.bsky.social Loved your Die Hard as a comfort movie post. ❤️‍🩹 Both Silence of the Lambs and Taking Lives are comfort movies to me. 💯😃

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  • Miranda ~*Randi*~ Doerfler @docsaico.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 14, 2026

    Ha! This is fun. Maybe TAKING LIVES with Angelina Jolie and Ethan Hawke. I love that movie, and I also own two copies, but mine was intentional - the first one I bought wound up being a TV edit version, so I had to buy a full uncut version, lol. But that movie is thrilling and terrifying!

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  • Chris A Field, Otherverse Games @otherverseg.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 6, 2024

    Taking Lives because I was in a packed Dollar Cinema and when the final jump scare happened, the entire theater lost its mind. Shrieking, yelling, screaming. The movie sold its finest scare! It earned those screams.

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  • The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2023

    I remember figuring out the movie Taking Lives during the trailer. And watching the remake of Assault on Precinct 13, about 15 minutes in I paused it and described, in detail, a scene that was going to happen near the end (it did).

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  • toastiepostie.bsky.social @toastiepostie.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 17, 2026

    #AngelinaJolie #FlashbackFriday Angelina Jolie’s 90s Style Evolution 1. premiere of ‘Lara Croft: Tomb Raider’ at Mann Village Theatre in Los Angeles, CA., Monday, June 11, 2001 2. world premiere of her film ‘Taking Lives’ March 16, 2004 in Los Angeles, California.

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  • Jock @jockd.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 1, 2026

    📽️Watching and ranking 90s/00s thrillers. 1. Kiss the Girls 2. THE BONE COLLECTOR 3. Along Came a Spider The Bone Collector is well made but for a movie about racing the clock to save people from a serial killer, it's not as tense as it should be. Next up: Taking Lives #filmsky #movies #cinema

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  • Init2winit @colonblow82.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 9, 2025

    100% agree. Paul Dano’s role in 2004 's Taking Lives is tiny, but it sets the whole tone of the movie. That opening scene carries so much tension & dread that it basically builds the vibe for everything that follows. Wild how a brief appearance still shows off his acting chops & at such a young age.

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  • Search Celebrity HD @templederrMastodon · Nov 3, 2026

    Angelina Jolie Nude - Taking Lives (2004) Angelina Jolie shows us her tits in a nude sex scene from the 2004 movie "Taking Lives." https://searchcelebrityhd.com/angelina-jolie-nude-taking-lives-2004/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=autoposter #AngelinaJolie #TakingLives #celebrity #celeb #celebrities #searchcelebrityhd

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  • Spectra the Starshooter @sp3ctra.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 19, 2026

    Ok. We haven’t been able to watch a spooky movie every night, but we have watched some good stuff. So far, Taking Lives, The Fourth Kind, The Purge, The Others, Iron Lung, The Backrooms, I’m sure I’m missing one or two. Please share your scary movie recs. I own all of Peele’s so leave those out 1/2

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  • clau clau 🦡 @eschatron9000.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 22, 2026

    watching a young paul dano perform in Taking Lives then being dragged into a time skip is a bunch of chicanery but it was 2004 it possibly must have hurt more to film the rest of the movie

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 25, 2026

    The (movie) Taking Lives 1080p (iTunes)(UK) £3.99 (Thriller) (iMDB) 6.3 Cast: Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland, Gena Rowlands, Olivier Martinez, Tchéky Karyo

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  • Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gyBluesky · Mar 18, 2026

    Watched the 2004 Angelina Jolie movie "Taking Lives." She's a serial killer profiler for the FBI. The guy you think is the bad guy the first time you see him, is the bad guy. Kiefer Sutherland shows up and pretends to be the bad guy, but he's just a drug dealer […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

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  • First Name Greatest @percivalpenman.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 18, 2026

    You know what movie was a good time? Taking Lives

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  • Derek St. John @derek117.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 13, 2025

    This could be good! Jolie was very good in "Salt" and also in "Taking Lives"--so this is in her toolkit. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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  • HellHorror @hellhorror.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 18, 2025

    Taking Lives Review - Reviews

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  • Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 26, 2025

    Taking Lives is such a good bad movie

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  • Maksemo @maksemowright.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 14, 2024

    So there was this movie with Angelina Jolie and Ethan Hawk called Taking Lives. I am low key hoping they make this movie like that in a lot of ways. A serial killer who just walks the earth changing his body and demeanor to the essence of the individual he killled and stumbles into Gotham.

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  • Chris A Field, Otherverse Games @otherverseg.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 29, 2024

    Taking Lives in a packed Dollar Cinema. Suspense film with Angelina Jolie. Final jump scare: the killer is hiding under AJ's bed and stabs her through the mattress. The theater erupts in shrieks. Best scare in a movie ever, the crowd was totally into it.

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  • CinemaSerf @Geronimo1967TMDB reviews · Sep 4, 2023

    Angelina Jolie does her best here and Ethan Hawke injects just a touch of menace but otherwise it's a rather far-fetched crime thriller set in Montreal. "Martin Asher" leaves his home and by systematically killing men as he ages - and assuming their identities - has left quite a trail of corpses over almost twenty years before FBI profiler Jolie is drafted in to try and help them get to the bottom of it all. The acting is ok, by and large, but a few "guest appearances" from Kiefer Sutherland,…

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  • Auqtobeurre @goodmorninghfx.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 13, 2023

    It’s that time of the week where I put a movie on in the background and restart 3 times because I’ve just been lazy-scrolling like a piece of shit. This week’s movie is Taking Lives.

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