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starring: Olivia Birkelund, Daniel Brochu, James Bulleit, Desmond Campbell, Bobby Cannavale
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780783243443
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Special Edition, NTSC
ISBN: 0783243448
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Release Date: August 29, 2000
Running Time: 78 minutes
Sales Rank: 16982
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: November 05, 1999
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Editorial Review:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Rob
I cannot comment on the the film. It would not play in any of my three DVD players and two computers.
Rating:  - IT'S ONLY ME BUT:
JOLIE AND DENZIL, WHAT A TREAT. A GREAT MOVIE. DENZIL PLAYS A COP SPECIALIZING IN FOSENICS AND PROFILINF AND JOLIE IS A YOUNGE ROOKIE COP WITH A FLARE FOR THE SAMW. DENZIL TAKES HER UNDER HIS WING, THEN GETS SHOT AND JOLIE MUST TAKE OVER THE CASE. WONDERFULL ACTING ON BOTH PARTS. JM
Rating: - Nice little thriller
The Bone Collector is a nice little thriller with sharp direction by Phillp Noyce. Denzel Washngtion is once again great in the lead role of Lincolin Ryme and always Angelina Jolie is very sexy. The script and cinematography are very good and the revelation of the killer is a nice surpise. Phillip Noyce makes his best film since Patriot Games with this one.
Rating: - bone collector
I accidentally bought an HD disc instead of a regular DVD or blu-ray.
I thought that I would eventually buy an HD player, but now realize that they are out with 8 track players.
Can I exchange this unopened HD CD?
Gayle
Rating: - worth seeing
The bone collector is a great movie, full of action and suspense, but very predictable. Denzel of course was awesome in it.
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