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List Price: $9.99 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 5694
Released: August 28, 2001 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
THE ONLY CLUES TO A SERIAL KILLER'S VICIOUS CRIMES ARE PIECES OF A BIZARRE PUZZLE. AND ONLY ONETIME TOP HOMICIDE INVESTIGATOR LINCOLN RHYME CAN PUT THE PIECES TOGETHER. WITH THE HELP OF A SHARP YOUNG ROOKIE, RHYME REALIZES HE AND HIS PARTNER MAY BE THE NEXT TARGETS AND THEIR FIRST CASE COULD BE THEIR LAST.
Description of The Bone Collector:
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 moldy, 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
The Bone Collector Reviews:
Not as forceful as Ironside but more charm 
2009-10-06 - Fictional detectives have come in all shapes, sizes, and colors; and they have borne a range of handicaps which, as the authors would have it, have led them to cultivate other characteristics which allows them to be first class investigators. Former detective Washington suffers from being all but totally paralyzed for most of the film. Fortunately, he has a cadre of highly talented assistants, the most useful of them being beautiful and a police officer. I could have done without the few shots of brutality inflicted upon victims but, other than that, it is the equivalent of a movie special of the Ironsides TV show although Washington has forced upon him more immobility than had Raymond Burr. Nevertheless, he is effective in the role and makes the most of its limitations. The film will not rank among the best in anything but it does hold ones attention for its almost two hours duration. Expect competent TV and you will probably enjoy it, expect Hitchcock and you will be disappointed.
not that good 
2009-09-16 - The book was great,but the movie wasn't that good.
If it was more graffic that would have been the ticket.
Jolie's performance is bizzar.Occasional NY city accent.
Love this one! 
2009-07-10 - I love to watch this movie! I am a huge Angie fan and this is enjoyable because it is before Agalina was known as the hardcore action hero she is now. Some of the best acting in this movie is done in the silent moments(by both Jolie and Washington).Very complex acting and even though it is suspenseful it is heartfelt as well. A keeper.
Great performances from Washington, O'Neill, and Latifah . . . and that's about it 
2009-06-23 - This movie could have been so much better, but they just had to ruin it, didn't they? With the exception of very fine performances from Denzel Washington, Ed O'Neill, and Queen Latifah, the rest of the film just falls flat. The plot seems so ridiculous that I can't help but look away. Angelina Jolie's acting is below average, but she did her best. The twist ending wasn't very disappointing, but it did fall flat because of its exaggerated (or lack of) suspense. I didn't really enjoy watching this thriller. There are better ones like Se7en, and The Usual Suspects. Watch those two, and you'll see how a real thriller should be.
Grade: D+
The ending rates a NO STAR
2009-01-28 - The Bone Collector. What a great idea for a movie. Then cast Denzel Washington in the lead. PERFECT. This had all the makings of a great movie. The acting was good, and the storyline was interesting. What happened?? The ending. When you invest the time, energy and money to create a movie that suckers in viewers, you should have a slam-bang finish. This one failed miserably. It broke the biggest rule of the Who-dun-it mysteries. You NEVER make the villan someone that the reader, or in this case, movie-viewer could never in their wildest dreams have figured out. In the end, we have the villan - someone who amounted to, at best, a walk on role up to the point he was revealed. It leaves the viewer saying, "HUH?" And the reason he wanted to kill our hero? He wanted to make him suffer for some deed he had done prior -- which was never revealed or discussed in the movie to that point. The laughable part was his rationale for wanting to kill him - he wanted him to suffer for what he had done to him. Ok, so kill him - then what? Its over. The Denzel character was a paraplegic, for Pete's sake. He suffered from seizures, etc. How could death be more suffering than that? I would have thought that the villan would have been MORE than satisfied to watch this daily suffering. In the end it was lame, lame, lame. Such a shame, too, when it had so much potential.
