The Bone Collector [HD DVD]
by Phillip Noyce
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Actor: Angelina Jolie, Ed O'Neill, Michael Rooker, Mike McGlone, Queen LatifahDirector: Phillip Noyce
Cinematographer: Craig Haagensen
Cinematographer: Dean Semler
Cinematographer: Geoffrey Erb
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Original Language)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 118 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-22
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal
DVD Reviews of The Bone Collector [HD DVD]
DVD Review: The ending rates a NO STAR
Summary: 2 Stars
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.
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Description of The Bone Collector [HD DVD]
He takes his victims? lives and leaves behind mysterious pieces of a bizarre puzzle. And the only person who may be able to make sense of the serial killer?s deranged plan is Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington), a onetime top homicide investigator. But after a tragic accident changes his life forever, Rhyme can only watch as other cops bungle the case...until he teams up with a young rookie, Amelia Donaghy (Angelina Jolie), who bravely searches out the clues that could help them solve the case. But as the killer senses the cops closing in, Rhyme realizes that he and his partner are on the trail of a vicious, sadistic murderer who will stop at nothing on his deadly mission. And at any moment, Rhyme and Amelia could become his next targets ? and their first case could become their last.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
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