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Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Great story, that keeps you on edge all the way through, I'm sure it will inspire to read all the Deaver books. A must see!

The Bone Collector is a serial killer thriller in the vein of Seven. Here the gruesome deaths are hinted at rather than shown in a gory visceral manner.Denzel Washington is Lincoln Rhyme, a paraplegic detective now bedridden who needs round the clock care after an accident. Rhyme was a brilliant forensic detective who wrote several books on the subject.Now his superiors want his help as a maniac pretending to be a cab driver, is abducting victims, torturing and killing them yet leaving clues behind for Rhyme to solve. He is assisted by a rookie cop, Amelia (Angelina Jolie) who acts as his physical being as she goes does the leg work and goes out out to the subterranean dark lairs where the victims have been held.As the film progresses it almost seems like a chess game is being played with Rhyme, the clues are aimed at Rhyme somehow as if the killer is taunting Rhyme, like they might have dealt with each other in the past.Director Phillip Noyce uses the film such as Sea of Love as a template for misdirection. It even has Michael Rooker playing a police chief, he played the villain in Sea of Love, initially appearing in a small scene.However the ending was rather cheesy with some campy lines and the motive of the killer felt like a bolt from the blue. Still it is an entertaining thriller but not up to the standards of Seven, Sea of Love or The Silence of the Lambs.

Intriguing and a film to keep you thinking, that would be a fine way to describe "The Bone Collector".Denzel Washington has immense presence even when he spends the whole film just lying in a bed..., the guy is a crack-shot crime scene investigator who is world renowned, but Lincoln Rhyme is reduced to a shell of his former self being a quadriplegic and unable to leave the confines of his bed, under the watchful eye of his nurse Thelma, played by Queen Latifah.Contemplating assisted suicide, suddenly Lincoln hears the news about a killing spree going down in town and has to change his plans, along with a brilliant performance by Angelina Jolie playing young rookie cop, Amelia Donaghy, the duo team up, Lincoln being the brains and Amelia being the eyes and the legs, to track down and take down the serial killer."The Bone Collector" is enjoyable but also very shocking, it keeps you guessing until the final act when the mystery becomes unravelled, it's not what you think unless you're a very clever person, and the killer and primary motive will probably surprise you.A superb supporting cast only added to the sickening splendour of a very stomach churning story, headed up by the ever reliable Luis Guzman, playing Eddie Ortiz, one of Lincolns loyal servants..., the whole cast had a specific role to add something to the story, and the overall acting was one of the film's strongest points. Quaintly claustrophobic, the film gives an overall impression of uncomfortable tight spaces, no more so than Lincoln's dwelling which can get cramped when his whole team pack the place out during the middle portion of the film. The whole film is made to make you feel uneasy and uncomfortable, something that a lot of other films in this bracket fail to do, but "The Bone Collector" is gritty, slimy and very unpleasant..., the cinematographer and the whole production team did a marvellous job of visually personifying the desired feeling and bringing it perfectly onto the screen.Almost top marks for a very fine film, I'd certainly watch it again.

This serial killer thriller-chiller was severely underrated by critics on release – and I'm not sure why. The film is impossible to dislike and even if not magnificent or original it has all the right aspects. The score is good, the dark and moody photography excellent, even the script gives light to some interesting characterisations once in a while which is a bit of a surprise. The usual elements torn from the two most popular "serial killer" films of the 1990s are all present and correct but the film does have some interest in the shape of its central pairing, Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie.Washington takes the role of Lincoln Rhyme, a top cop who gets his back broken and spends the rest of his days as a quadriplegic lying in a bed in his huge, spooky house. Although bedridden he's still a force to be reckoned with and Washington is typically excellent in the role, especially in the scenes where he deciphers puzzling clues and puts two and two together like a modern day Holmes. The sexy Angelina Jolie, on the other hand, is a young, tough female police officer who initially spars with Washington before growing to understand (and love?) him as their relationship deepens and they grow respect for each other.Fair enough, the plot of the serial killer is familiar and the deaths are all as unpleasant as they should be. Victims are eaten alive by rats and boiled to death by steam pipes. The film goes for a dark, unwholesome SEVEN vibe here which pays off dividends. These scenes come as no surprise but are pleasingly atmospheric and spooky, especially the hunting through dark underground tunnels. One thing I will say is that the identity of the killer is far too easy to guess; I had narrowed it down to two suspects early on and at the end my suspicions were confirmed. Saying that, the adrenaline-pump of the finale is excellent (if predictable), proving that you should never underestimate the power of the human will.The supporting cast is pretty efficient for this kind of movie, with nice turns from Queen Latifah (a real surprise, this one), and especially Michael Rooker who excels as the hard-nose police Captain in charge of the case. Plus we get some turns from distinguished character actors like Leland Orser (weird and geeky as always) and Luis Guzman (underused, sadly). Despite the lengthy running time the film fairly flies by, with a good pacing and some excellent suspenseful and taut sequences showing the killer trapping his victims. You could certainly do a lot worse, which I why I recommend this movie to fans of the genre.