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The Bone Collector [2000]
from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
starring Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah, Michael Rooker, Mike McGlone
directed by Phillip Noyce

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Editorial Review:

Released in late 1999, The Bone Collector was originally promoted as a thriller in the tradition of The Silence of the Lambs and Seven, suggesting that it would earn a place among those earlier, better films. Nice try, but no cigar. The Bone Collector settles instead for mere competence and the modest rewards of a well-handled formula. With a terrific cast at his service, director Phillip Noyce (Dead Calm, Patriot Games) turns the pulpy indulgence of Jeffery Deaver's novel into a slick potboiler that is grisly fun only if you don't pick it apart.

Noyce expertly builds palpable tension around a series of gruesome murders that lead us into the darkest nooks of New York City.

Now a bedridden quadriplegic prone to life-threatening seizures and suicidal depression, forensics detective Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington) gets a new lease on life with a sharp young beat cop (Angelina Jolie) who's a wizard at analyzing crime scenes. She does field work while he deciphers clues from his high-tech Manhattan loft, and as they narrow the search their lives are increasingly endangered. As this formulaic plot grows mouldy, Noyce resorts to narrative shortcuts, using perfunctory scenes to manipulate the viewer and taking morbid pleasure in his revelation of the murder scenes. And yet it all works, to a point, and the cast (including Queen Latifah and Luiz Guzmán) is much better than the material. If you're looking for a few good thrills, The Bone Collector is a pretty safe bet. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Pretty good but....
  I enjoyed it very much but...I'm not happy with the motivation of the crime. Pazzling the crime is pretty good.

• GREAT THRILLER
  Really enjoyed this one. Good cast with Denzel Washington, and a fresh faced (luscious lipped) Angelina Jolie.
  Great story surrounding a serial killer, reinacting a book of the same title, with ritualised killings across New York.
  Fast paced stuff. Recommend this one 100%

• He's behind you.
  A fairly predictable jaunt from start to finish. Although the acting is fine it's nothing new - Washington especially seems to be playing by numbers. The directing, script, photography is mostly average but there are a number of well-built suspense sequences.
  The characters aren't really the most interesting bunch and it's hard to really care about any of them.
  The major problem of the film, though, is the identity of the killer - an early scene is so mishandled that it becomes clear who's... more info

• Really not good.....
  Far-fetched and full of cliches. Instead of an experienced forensic team, Angelina Jolie's character is sent in first, on her own, to a crime scene where a) she has no experience and b) she could be at serious risk. It just wouldn't happen, especially in a country where people sue if they break a nail!
  The police investigation is conducted from Washington's characters' home, despite him being an ex-cop quadroplegic who was injured in the line of duty and so is really off the whole Police thing.
  Jolie... more info

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