VividSimon Simply Perfect

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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.

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.

eric262003 It never seems to amaze me, but even through the most contrived films out there, Denzel Washington could still pull off an amazing thriller. His body language in his comfort zone which is why he more often gets cast as an athlete or a military personnel. He truly has the gift of the gab and "The Bone Collector' clearly exemplifies that. It's a bit shameful that Washington is for most of the film quadriplegic. In "The Bone Collector", Washington is a forensics specialist named Lincoln Rhyme who works for the NYPD. In the opening scene at the lower depths of the subway station, he's hit by a beam which was the cause for his immobility. As a result, the only joints that are still in tact are a finger, his shoulders and his brain. In order for this film to work, requires someone extraordinary to equally match Mr. Washington's talents. In one of her earlier starring roles Angelina Jolie steps up to the plate as a rookie detective Amelia Donaghy who's been assigned to fill in his running fieldwork for him. And even though she's drenched in sex appeal, backed by a upbeat soundtrack and a tantalizing view of the Manhattan skyline, "The Bone Collector" could still be a potential dust collector.The plot involving a methodical, macabre sadistic killer with clues scattered around is unoriginal of a story, and it reminds us all of the 1995 film "Se7en", but at least in the aforementioned story, it is executed more subliminally. Some of Rhyme's conclusions are illogical and implausible. Spending most of the film planted flat on his back, Mr. Rhyme is able to unravel esoteric clues with pieces of bones and skin particles situated overhead, like Velma of "Scooby Doo" fame, he can easily trace these small clue fragments towards the murderer being a NYC cab driver committing sadistic acts from over a hundred years ago. Rhyme is able to track down the killer's next whereabouts located to what appears to be a old slaughterhouse. Rhyme is able to know exactly which one it is. Based on the best-selling novel by Jeffrey Deaver, the script by Jeremy Iacone, "The Bone Collector" had the potential to be a very intriguing mystery thriller in the same vein like Sherlock Holmes, the only problem that makes this film too unbelievable was that Rhyme was never once wrong about all his fragmented evidence. And to top it all off, wasn't it just coincidental that Queen Latifah as Nurse Thelma who seems very savvy at putting pieces together almost like it was a hobby to her. And another reason this film is not mind-numbing brain work can be found in the cab itself. If you look closely on the rear-view mirror, you will see a doll with a noose tied around his neck. I mean would you hop into a New York cab seeing something like that? To all cabbies watching this movie I'd advise you to avoid this one, unless you want your clients to fear you that you might drive them to a slaughterhouse. Even though this film's genre is billed as a psychological thriller, it actually work better as a romantic drama. It might not look that way, but through watchful eyes I can see the connection. We can see through the character of Jolie's character Amelia Donaghy. From her evidence she unraveled from the killer's first victim, Rhyme narrowly believes that Donaghy has the talent for forensic science, but it's clearly obvious she is still very green in experience. He also believes that she is the only one who is capable of digging up evidence to clue-searching. I'm sure the NYPD can find more experienced people than her. I think he's hiring her because he loves her company. Director Philip Noyce's close-ups of Rhyme looking over his inexperienced cohort. Sure she's nice on the eyes and the way they look at each other, it shows they have feelings for one another.The performances are what makes this story at least not a complete letdown. Second-generation performer Jolie bears a striking resemblance towards her father Jon Voight in the classic film "Midnight Cowboy." Knowing her dominance and charisma, she really can out-perform her cohorts whether she's playing leading or supporting roles. Washington lets his eyes metaphorically do the talking, his intelligence is what carries the movie quite well. Next to Morgan Freeman, Washington is able to embody an infallible detective none the better.

pchristle I never saw an Angelina Jolie movie before. If this one is a representative example of her acting abilities, I will never watch another. She is not the worst actor I have ever seen, but she certainly lacks believability. Maybe it is just a role she is not suited to -- a street cop? The other problem with this film is the script, which does not play fair with the viewer. The killer turns out to be someone totally unexpected, which would be fine if any clues to his or her identity had been given somewhere in the movie. Denzel Washington is good, given the limited scope of a character confined to a bed. All in all, an average movie that is not quite a waste of two hours of my life.