No matter how well a person is at doing a certain thing, there will always be a certain time when that person will be beaten.

In “Taking Lives,” Angelina Jolie plays FBI agent Illeana Scott, successfully transforming her image from a sexual object on screen, to a woman who can be professional at what she does.

Kiefer Sutherland, who played a drug dealer trying to make Costa pay him at the wrong time, appeared as if he was the real serial killer.

“Taking Lives” is made up of an interesting cast who knows how to portray the characters in the movie.

It was nice to see Oliver Martinez who played a villian in “S.W.A.T.” and who also played an artisit who had an affair with Diane Lane in “Unfaithful,” play the role of a detective.

But he did not have a lot of opportunities to show his skills in playing a detective since Jolie did most of the investigative parts of the film.

However, it might have been a better movie if Martinez and Hawke switched roles. Hawke did not do a good job on playing a serial killer.

Sutherland has done a fairly good job playing a drug dealer. It felt kind of weird though, since he was this superhero on the TV show “24.”

The movie starts off showing two boys meeting on a shuttle bus, which travels to Seattle from Montreal. The bus breaks down and the boys rent a car.

One of the boys, Martin, was trying to escape from home after he killed his twin brother, who was more favored by their mother, played by Gena Rowlands.

He then murdered the other boy and took his identity because he always sees something in other people’s lives that he wants.

Martin then turned into a serial killer, changing his identity whenever he saw another identity that he wished he had.

He would somehow get close to his victim, learn his background and behavior, imitate his habits and get the person’s fingerprints.

After the Montreal detectives found a few more bodies, they brought in Scott to help with solving the case.

Jimmy Costa, played by Ethan Hawke, was an art dealer who talked to the Montreal detectives, claiming that he witnessed the last part of Martin murdering another man.

Scott was certain that Costa was suspicious and that his true identity might be Martin himself, but her judgement was later clouded after she fell for Costa.

Then, by chance, Costa met his mother in an elevator at the police office and he killed her. Scott was standing in front of the elevator when the door opened and she saw Costa with blood on his hands and his mother’s dead body.

Costa managed to escape and got on a train, and would eventually come back to kill Scott.

But it was obvious that Costa was the serial killer since his first appearance in the movie.

The way he talked, and how the director portrayed Scott’s suspiciousness toward Costa and Costa’s nervousness all told the viewers that he was the killer.

However, the sex scene between Jolie and Hawke can be omitted. Jolie was almost naked in the scene which was not necessary at all; but again, that is what makes her Angelina Jolie.

There were also excessive shots of Jolie’s seductive eyes and her pillow lips; her heavy breathing throughout the movie was unnecessary, too.

The images of the victims shown in the movie are a little too graphic, but it shows that the makeup artists are good at what they do.

“Taking Lives” get three out of five stars. This movie is rated R.