Product Description

Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah, Michael Rooker, Mike McGlone Director: Phillip Noyce

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5318 in DVD
• Brand: Blu-ray Thriller
• Released on: 2008-06-02
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: German, English, Italian, Russian, Czech, Polish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds
• Running time: 118 minutes

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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 analysing 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 mouldy, 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, Amazon.com

Synopsis
In Phillip Noyce's gripping thriller, Denzel Washington is Lincoln Rhyme, a decorated New York City police officer and successful author of crime novels. After a freak accident on the job, Rhyme is left paralyzed from the neck down (except for his index finger). Angelina Jolie is Amelia Donaghy, a troubled cop who finds herself caught up in the investigation of a brutal serial killer. With the help of the bed-ridden Rhyme, she enters a dangerous world that threatens to add her to the killer's list.

Customer Reviews

classic film
A classic film made even better by the inhanced imaging and sound quality of blueray, a must buy

Great Film
This film is really good, there's a good story line which is quite different. Not very much difference from a normal dvd, but the price was about the same.