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Bones
Over 20 years after his death, local legend and benefactor Jimmy Bones returns as a ghost to avenge those who killed him and restore his neighborhood.
Release : | 2001 |
Rating : | 4.4 |
Studio : | New Line Cinema, The Lloyd Segan Company, Heller Highwater Productions, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Production Design, |
Cast : | Snoop Dogg Pam Grier Bianca Lawson Khalil Kain Michael T. Weiss |
Genre : | Horror Thriller |
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How sad is this?
It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.
It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
Bones is an urban Gothic horror flick starring Snoop Dogg and Pam Grier . Snoop is Jimmy Bones , a supercool gangster that also looks out for his community . When his homies sell out and snuff out Bones to make money selling crack , the neighborhood dies off with him. Bones not resting in peace comes back for revenge and to see his lady ( Pam Grier ). The flashback scenes from 1979 are very much a nod to the blaxploitation era that Grier was undisputed queen of . However , this is a horror film and has great atmosphere ,gore and creepy stuff in addition to the coolness of Snoop and Grier . Most of the f/x are practical and for the most part look good . The film is'nt perfect , but lower budget horror is much like pizza . It needs cheese, Bones has more than enough to go around . Bones is to Gothic horror what Tales From The Hood was to Tales From The Crypt. So, if you are down with that give Bones a shot. It is much better than the haters suggest.
I watched this movie under the misleading title "Diabolical Mansion" but what can you expect from 4:00 a.m. local Mexican programming? I decided to watch it but I didn't know it was a Horror movie! I mean, Snoop Dogg stars on it. From the opening sequence where he gets off his car and acts like a pimp you don't expect a revenge from the grave movie.I was surprised and satisfied with the movie's content and violence. True...it isn't scary, violent, or even spooky but it features some interesting sub-plots that deal with revenge and crime. The perfect combination.Please give this movie a try but think that it stars a Rap Star, it deals with a rap soundtrack and the rap scene... It's a treat.Recommended for Late Night Cinema insomniacs like myself. Don't waste your money on it, just wait for it to air on t.v.
The film is original in a few ways but it is mostly a jigsaw puzzle of borrowed elements. One can recognize Clive Barker's Hellraiser, or a new episode of Candyman, or an extension of Nightmare on Elm Street, or even Halloween or some Stephen King film. But it is black, black and black again and the hood is always very close, the hood of Boyz in the Hood and its crack and the execution of the little local gang leader by his associates including his protecting cop, and he finally comes back to get his vengeance, get even and recapture all his executioners and their next generation of children, including his own daughter. That does not make a film with a meaning, just some kind of thrilling entertainment, if you like blood and maggots, underground tunnels and skeletons in some kind of cabinet, or is it a cupboard or a closet? A little bit sad in a way because the situation and the theme could have produced a film with some insight in black imagination, in black white-induced schizophrenia, and it does not.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
I only recently saw this movie. Basically your standard man gets killed and sometime later comes back to life to get his revenge on his killers. It starts with potential and kept it through about 3 quarters of the film but in the last quarter it choked, stalled, and then died.All through the movie the blood was any color but the color of blood, I have to wonder if that was supposed to have paid homage to the days when the censorship laws prohibited film makers using blood colored blood, it does in its own way add a kind of sick humor to Bones and there was plenty of dark humor to go around in the first place, really there are parts that are quite funny. Unfortunately there are also parts that are just plain stupid and other parts that are gross just for the sake of being gross. It also has plenty of things that are cliché then there is the racially cliché. A black man has a white lover called Snowflake and a joke about eating fried chicken among other things.Getting closer to the end the story begins to follow an illogical line, if Jimmy Bones returns from the dead to seek revenge on those that killed him then why did he do so much more damage and why did the movie end the way it did? So that the film makers could get the movie done and leave an opening for a sequel to a movie that never needed one?I think that the greatest injustice of the movie was that the character of Jimmy Bones was made into the bad guy, vicious and ruthless and completely the opposite of what and who the character was made out to be during flashback scenes that occur throughout the film. Even though this happens Snoop Dogg gives a great performance as Jimmy Bones but the writing of the character and the movie itself could have been handled better, both had potential that was dropped and ended before the full potential was ever reached. Still the movie is fun and that makes it very watchable even if you watch it just the once.