Bone Collector (Widescreen) [DVD] [2000]

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

2.35 Wide Screen
DVD 9
German
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English German
Dolby Digital 5.1
Original Theatrical Trailers
Cast And Director Interviews
Directors Commentary
Isolated Score
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The Bone Collector is a shattering suspense-thriller in which two cops on the trial of a brutal serial killer must see as one, act as one and think as one before the next victim falls. Forced to rely on each other, the two must work together to capture the killer in the race against time.

Chapter Selections

Start
A Living Nightmare
Taxi To Hell
Two Shoulders And A Brain
Amelia
The Crime Scene
Rhyme's New Protege
To Stop A Killer
Amilia Goes In
The Dead Cop's Daughter
The Next Victim
Signs Of Slaughter
A Feast For The Rats
Shut Down
The Third Victims
The Bone Collector
Death Under The Pier
The Last Victim
Reasons To Live
End Titles