AboveDeepBuggy Some things I liked some I did not.

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Bessie Smyth Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Prismark10 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.

pedrito_rules Not the greatest acting jobs by Washington and Jolie, but the story was very interesting. If you're a fan of Seven and Taking Lives this on should definitely be on your watch list.

capone666 The Bone CollectorThe best keepsake to take from your murder victim is cash, credit cards or their car.But for some reason the stalker in this crime-thriller collects worthless bone shards. Beat cop Donaghy (Angelina Jolie) pairs with a paralyzed forensic expert, Rhyme (Denzel Washington), to find a serial killer who extracts bone fragment from their victims as a souvenir. The duo concludes the perpetrator is a cabbie with a criminal record and a connection to Rhyme's work in forensics. Unfortunately, Donaghy, Rhyme and his caretaker (Queen Latifah) don't realize just how close the Bone Collector is.While the mystery isn't as earthshattering as hoped, this first and only installment in author Jeffery Deaver's Rhyme series does feature inexplicable chemistry between the unlikely leads. In fact, this intriguing subplot supports the film's formulaic construction.Incidentally, the best way to prevent future serial killers is to execute every nice, quiet guy next door. Yellow Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

EBJ THE BONE COLLECTOR - 1999Directed by Phillip NoyceStarring ​Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie and Michael RookerPlot Overview: ​Policewoman Amelia Donaghy (Angelina Jolie) is in hot pursuit of a serial murderer whose calling card is a small shard of bone extracted from each of his victims. Unable to decipher the cryptic clues the killer leaves behind at the scene of the crime, Amelia calls upon quadriplegic forensic criminology expert Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington) to help. With Amelia acting as Rhyme's able-bodied go-between, the pair piece together disparate clues, hoping they will learn who the next victim is.For me, the very worst sin a serial killer movie can pull is thinking it is smarter than it is. A movie that thinks that its solutions are 'mind blowing' and 'genius' when they are in reality just average or below that are the worst type of serial killer film due to the horrible pretentious nature of it. And that is exactly what this mess is. Pretentious, boring, messy - three words that no film should have the burden of bearing but three words this film claims.Good movies that are 'intelligent' give enough wiggle room for the audience to figure out the solution for themselves. This film, on the other hand, combines myriads of obscure, stupidly insignificant pieces of information into one impossible to solve, obscene solution. I am 100% down with an intelligent lead, but when your lead is omniscient, I have a problem with it. The conclusion for this movie is both lazy and infuriating. I kinda guessed who it was shortly after the film began so the grand reveal meant nothing for me. As for the people I watched this with, it meant nothing for them because the reveal itself was worthless. No hints. No ideal motive. They even do the horribly cliché method of trying to convince the audience that X is the Y, when in fact it is Z. What I mean by that is that they try to convince you it is someone when it is CLEARLY not them. They used this technique with SCOOBY DOO! I would like to think that PROFESSIONAL FILM WRITERS can do a LITTLE bit better than that. Credit where credit is due, Denzel Washington was pretty darn good in this movie, considering he couldn't use 90% of his body. His co- star, in the form of Angelina Jolie was very weak and so annoying to watch on screen. The 'chemistry' between the two in the film is literally non-existent and the romance sub plot more shoehorned in than Wonder Woman in Batman V Superman.Michael Rooker wasn't that good in this movie, as much as I like him as an actor. Queen Latifa was fine in this movie. She gave a perfectly passable and average performance.Personally, I am not a huge fan of the cinematography in this movie. Some of the transitions irked me but there was nothing offensively bad about it so I can't criticise it THAT much.​ Pretentious films like this are just the worst. I can't recommend this hunk of junk. It is a bland, forgettable, generic serial killer flick that tried to act better than it really was. I'll rate it 3 Flying Rats out of 10.