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Summary: Read the Book
Review: This is a definate for thriller fans everywhere! It centres on Lincoln Rhyme, who is one of the world's foremost forensic criminalists. He is also a quadriplegic, paralysed from the next down. He is strapped in his bed and actually planning his suicide when he gets a call he can't ignore from his old partner on the force. A single human hand has been found, buried on a deserted railway track on New York's West Side - The hand belonging to a man who got into a cab at the airport and never got out. And the driver was the Bone Collector. The Bone Collector, a killer and kidnapper obsessed with old New York, leaves clues that only Lincoln Rhyme can decipher. As the minutes count down towards each succesive death of an innocent, Rhyme and Amelia Sachs, the female police officeracting as his arms and legs, race to locate the victims by unravelling the Bone Collector's clues. Slowly the criminalist begins to narrow the noose around the kidnapper. But it appears the Bone Collector has his own plans, and is narrowing his own noose - around Lincoln Rhyme! - Lincoln Rhyme is supperbly portrayed by Denzel Washington, and Angelina Jolie plays the slighly timid but stunningly beautiful Amelia Sachs, this film is a classic thriller, with twists and turns galore, but I do suggest reading the book, The Bone Collector - By Jeffrey Deaver, as the film doesn'nt quite do it justice!
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Summary: A Chilling, Above Average Suspense Thriller
Review: "The Bone Collector," based on Jeffrey Deaver's best-selling novel, is a gothic suspense thriller that takes the viewer below the streets of New York City, to places dark and chilling, where an evil serial killer does his dirty deeds. Creepy!!Police detective Lincoln Rhyme, (Denzel Washington is wonderful in this role - but isn't he always?), is considered to be THE genius of forensic science. His books on the subject are mandatory study at the Police Academy. During an investigation, four years before, Rhyme was involved in a terrible on-the-job accident which left him a quadriplegic and bedridden. Attached to life sustaining machines, he is only able to move one finger and his head and neck. He is subject to seizures that threaten to leave him a vegetable. A very angry man, he is bored and, at times, suicidal. Still an official member of the force, his former colleagues visit him constantly and involve him in difficult cases. A new, troubling case forces them to seek his help, yet again. Rookie cop, Amelia Donaghy (Angelina Jolie), works with the city's troubled youth. By chance she discovers the half-buried body of a powerful New York City businessman, near a railroad track. She, almost intuitively, knows what to do to protect the forensic evidence. Sending a witness off to buy a disposable camera, she takes photos of the crime scene before a rainstorm can wash away the evidence. She then, single-handedly, stops a train to preserve valuable clues. Rhyme decides she has natural forensic talent and demands she be placed on the case. So she reluctantly joins his team. Donaghy does the leg work, connected by a headset to Rhyme, while he instructs her. The two puzzle over clues and work the case from his bedside. And the leg work is brutally grim. This killer, intelligent and demented, thinks up some awful ways to commit murder. The crime scenes are elaborately set-up and clues are purposefully left that would stump the most avid puzzle addict. The gruesome crimes remind me of those in the movie "Seven." The mystery is intriguing and the forensic work absolutely fascinates. The chemistry between Rhyme and Donaghy is palpable. This is more than a student-mentor bond, although it takes them a while to get the relationship off the ground. He is cranky and imperious - she is just plain ornery. Amelia brings him to life again and he stops contemplating euthanasia. In turn, he brings new energy to Amelia's life and forces her to open up. Queen Latifa (as Rhyme's nurse) and Luis Guzman (as a fellow cop ands friend) are show stealers. This is no "Silence of the Lambs," but it is good entertainment. The camera gives the ambiance a dark and brooding look and provides some interesting angles. Often predictable, there are still surprises and the growing closeness between the detective and the cop is very well done and subtle. Although "The Bone Collector" is not a "must see," it is certainly an exciting way to spend a rainy night.
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Summary: Let down by the ending...
Review: ...but a very tense thriller, and I'd say recommended -just don't expect it to be as complete as Seven or The Silence Of The Lambs (if I am allowed to compare these).
These thrillers depend on the outcome of what they build themselves up to -and a lot of these movies fail. Taking Lives has an ending that (to be honest) sucks! The Bone Collector, well, a little simple and uninteresting when the killer is revealed, the story (otherwise so great) deserved so much more, and one expected a "BIG BANG"-ending (like Seven that delievers all the way). In thrillers THE ENDING IS ALL THAT MATTERS! The plot has got to be strong and convinsing. Unless it is a spoiler.
The perfect thriller is complex, frightening, dark and takes its' time -there should be no easy answers, only convinsing plots.
I enjoyed this movie though, and I must say that it is far better than Taking Lives -but the ending came too soon, and was served without surprises. I missed the superb feeling of "Aha!", but no... The Bone Collector "uncovers" nothing!
The movie otherwise really builds up though, take a look!
Angelina and Denzel do great jobs!
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Summary: A good suspense thriller, a must RENT movie
Review: I saw The Bone Collector twice, once in the theater and once several years later. This was one too many times to see this film.
The story revolves around a quadriplegic police detective named Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington) and a witty young patrol officer, Amelia Donaghy (Angelina Jolie). The plot is fairly simple. A series of rather unusual, methodically planned murders are taking place in the city, as the perpetrator taunts police with clues left at the scene of each murder. The police department asks for help from the bedridden Detective Rhyme. After the first murder, Rhyme sees the talent of Officer Donaghy and uses her as his eyes and feet in the investigation. Not wanting to give the climax away, there is a reason the perpetrator is taunting the police.
The ending of the movie was thrilling yet foolish at the same time. To me, a good suspense thriller should leave clues so an extremely bright person might be able to figure out who is the "shadowy" bad guy and what he is after. While the ending in this movie is predictable, I felt there is absolutely no way that anyone could figure out who the killer is much less the cause of his bloody rampage prior to the killer admitting it.
This film is one of those movies where if you seen it once, there is really no reason to see it again. The suspense is gone from the movie after you see it the first time. While I thought the movie was quite good the first time I saw it, it was rather boring the second time I saw it. This is not a movie I'd rent for a date or cuddle with someone to. I'd recommend the movie to people who like a great suspense movie, and who have never seen it. This is a move I'd highly recommend renting instead of buying.
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Summary: MOVIE ENTERTAINING AND SUSPENSEFUL.,
Review: It's unfortunate that both Jonathan and Victor didn't care for the film. I found the storyline to be very suspenseful right to the end. I thought Denzel did a great job in the film and he and Anjolina Jolie worked well together. The film did what it was intending to which was to entertain. Sure any film made could always have had a better ending or a better plot, but it's pure entertainment. And on that level, it was a good movie which I would highly recommend.
People need to lighten up on their criticisms
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Summary: The other ratings are insane!!
Review: If you are looking for a plain out bloody horror flick, this is not for you. This is a story that actually has a story line, and if you take out all of the gore, it is simply a puzzle. If you pay enough attention, you will see that great detail went into this work.
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Summary: Slick but Silly Crime Movie
Review: Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie versus the mad serial killer. It's OK. It's quite entertaining, very well put together and decently acted It's desperately implausible. It begins when Jolie's beat cop stumbles on a crime scene and takes a few pictures. Washington's crippled bigshot forensic expert then decides, on what amounts to quite improbably slender evidence, that she is a forensic genius and has her transferred to a prominent role on the homicide team working in close partnership with himself. The case they are working on is one where the baddie is addicted to concocting and planting clever little tableaux to serve as clues for the police on where to look for his next felony. Washington solves these little crossword puzzles. All Jolie does is find them and pick them up, again hardly evidence of the great forensic mind she is being credited with. Michael Rooker is the bugling police captain, Lestrade to Wshington's Holmes. This whole serial killer as crossword compiler premise is a desperately silly and lazy contrivance, making for a nice tidy storyline but too unlikely for words. An engaging enough way to pass the time, then but ultimately just further evidence that Hollywood has really done serial killers to death and it's now past time to find some fresher themes for crime movies.
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Summary: Great rainy night Thriller
Review: This is one you don't want to read the book first!
It appears that those who have read the book are quite disappointed by the movie because it does not follow the book... As for myself and many others who have not read the book, I truely love this movie. Done in the style of Fallen and Seven, It will keep you guessing all the way to the end!
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Summary: Oh my god!!! This movie sucked!
Review: I hated this movie, and it just wasn't because I read the book first. They changed nearly every aspect of the book. I can't believe that Jeffrey Deaver allowed them to butcher his great, gripping, sometimes scary novel the way they did. This movie wasn't scary in the least bit. I ended up fast forwarding to the end cause I wanted to see how they ended it... I hated it so much I ranted and raved for like the next week. Oh my god it was horrible. Movie NEEDS to be redone the way the book reads, with a very gay Thom, the romantic relationship evolving between Rhyme and SACHS, the UN Conference going on. And it damn better be sit on the edge of your seat what is going on....
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Summary: Want it in a nutshell?
Review: Some superb performances, but a slipshod, miscast film. And that's a shame, too. Do yourself a huge favor and read the book first. Then watch this with the fast-forward button handy.
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