Product Description

The only clues to a serial killers 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. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 03/28/2006 Starring: Denzel Washington Angelina Jolie Run time: 118 minutes Rating: R Director: Phillip Noyce

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8732 in DVD
• Brand: Universal
• Released on: 2001-08-28
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 118 minutes

Amazon.com
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

From The New Yorker
Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie may have signed on to this picture believing they were going to do a "Rear Window"-type thriller, but the film, while sharply directed by Phillip Noyce, is so badly plotted that it feels like an episode of "Ironside." Washington plays a forensics expert, a quadriplegic confined to his bed, who guides a police rookie (Jolie) through a series of clues to catch a gruesome serial killer. Noyce jacks up the slick production values and cool camera angles to give the picture some pizzazz, but the hokey dialogue and catch-the-killer philosophizing kills most of the tension. Although Washington's charisma shines, Jolie gives such a thin performance that it's almost laughable. -Bruce Diones
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

the bone collector
Angelina Jolie takes a lot of risks in acting and thats what makes her SO amazing! She can play any role that they think up of. Denzels paralyzed character is so strong, you fall in love with him! This movie is very suspenseful and a great watch! I highly recommend this movie to anyone who likes a great detective story because you will NOT be able to figure out who is the one killing every one until the very end :)

The Bone Collector {HD DVD}
I saw this movie when first released and thought it was a good show at the time so bought it on HD DVD with a good performance by Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie four out of five .

Rob
I cannot comment on the the film. It would not play in any of my three DVD players and two computers.