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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
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
It isn't Se7en, but then it isn't supposed to be...,
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This review is from: Bone Collector (Widescreen) [DVD] [2000] (DVD)
This is a superior thriller chiefly because it is unconventional - the crimes themselves are not the main focus of the story. They are, in a sense, the McGuffin that explains how the two main characters are brought together for a human story. Due to this the film does suffer in comparison to the recent classics of it's supposed genre...but you would have to a long, long way to surpass Se7en or Silence of the Lambs - and wisely perhaps the emphasis in the film isn't on that aspect. Washington and Jolie perform admirably - as you expect of them - and the lack of chemistry that is referred to in some reviews was not apparent to me. Surely the point of the human story is that he is trying to make her more than she thinks she can be - and for a good part of the film she resists that - resists being made into a version of him. The point was not to make the viewer believe that there was a sexual chemistry - at least for me - so I was not upset by the seeming lack of this. Amelia is fascintaed with Ryhmes - not falling in love with him. The supporting cast are of a high quality and if I had to quibble with the film I would argue that the final scene is a smaltzy hollywood cop-out.In summary if you approach this film without trying to compare it to Se7en et al, you will get far more out of it. Equally if you have read the book you may be disappointed. I haven't but generally I am disappointed with the filmed versions of 99% of books. Accept that a director has two hours (or less) to play with whilst the narrative of a novel would typically take maybe 3 or 4 hours to screen in full and the diappointment fades. After the heinous sin that was "The Saint" Phillip Noyce produces his best work since Dead Calm.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
oldies are still good,
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This review is from: The Bone Collector [DVD] (DVD)
its a dvd you can put aside for a while,then watch it again,and still derive a great deal of excitment from it.great acting from denzel washington.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Death doesn't get much more interesting than this...,
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This review is from: The Bone Collector [VHS] [2000] (VHS Tape)
A thoroughly gripping film, with Denzel Washington playing the calm but firm Lincoln Rhyme. The plot is fantastically well-orchestrated, and whilst this is not a film to have you jumping down the back of the sofa, this film will horrify you at how physically possible this tale is. It has it's freaky moments (a computer-animated rat lunging tooth-first into a guy's nose, for instance) but the plot is what grabbed me. I'm not an avid film buff, but I know a good film when I see one. And this rates VERY high on my list.
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