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... more
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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 ...
tradition ofThe Silence of the LambsandSeven, suggesting that it would earn a place among those earlier, better films. Nice try, but no cigar.The Bone Collectorsettles...
The Bone Collector [2000]
Released in late 1999,The Bone Collectorwas originally promoted as a thriller in the
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tradition ofThe Silence of the LambsandSeven, suggesting that it would earn a place among those earlier, better films. Nice try, but no cigar.The Bone Collectorsettles 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 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 Collectoris a pretty safe bet. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
The Bone Collector
The hero of Jeffery Deaver's thriller The Bone Collector is Lincoln Rhyme, a forensic
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scientist known to his peers as "the world's foremost criminalist". Rhyme will need all his reason--and his considerable stock of high-tech tools--about him to solve this latest brain-twister: a serial killer with method to his madness. In tried and true thriller fashion, the killer's crimes are described in lurid detail, as is the astounding technological equipment with which Rhyme examines the evidence--everything from an energy-dispersive x-ray unit to a mass spectrometer. Every fictional detective has his or her gimmick, from Sherlock Holmes's violin to Nero Wolf's orchids, and Rhyme is no exception. He is a quadriplegic who can move nothing but a single finger. Gadget-philes will be in seventh heaven reading about Lincoln Rhyme's tools; other readers might feel the book could do with a few more plausible characters and a little less technology. --Amazon.com
The Bone Collector [2000]
Released in late 1999, The Bone Collector was originally promoted as a thriller in the
... more
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 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
Production Year: 2004 - Thriller - Director: Brad Turner, Rodney Charters, Tim Iacofono, Bryan Spicer, Jon Cassar, Kevin Hooks, Ken Girotti - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over
Actor(s): Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah, Michael Rooker, Mike McGlone, Luis Guzman, Ed O'Neill, John Benjamin Hickey, Leland Orser
Director(s): Phillip Noyce
Genre: Thriller & Mystery - Thriller
Classification: 15 years and over
Production Year: 1999
Running Time: 1 hour 53 minutes
Video Category: Feature Film
Plot: After an accident, a forensics expert, Lincoln Rhymes, is left only able to move his head and one finger. He is looked after by a loving nurse but the fear of a seizure, which would leave him a vegetable, is constantly present. This all changes when he receives clues from a serial killer, obviously needing forensic investigation, which sparks off a new interest in life for Lincoln...
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT; CINRAM LOGISTICS
Release date: 14/10/2002
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: CSB 30597
Editor: William Hoy
Barcode: 5035822059764
Production Designer: Nigel Phelps
Screenwriter: Jeremy Iacone
Cinematographer: Dean Semler
Composer: Craig Armstrong
Director of Photography: Dean Semler
Producer: Martin Bregman, Michael Scott Bregman, Louis A. Stroller
Author: William Hoy, Jeffery Deaver
Costume Designer: Odette Gadoury
DVD Description
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.
Advantages: Remastered, making of documentary Disadvantages: Cant think of a Thing!
...This has got to be one of the greatest all time films ever made, and the dvd enhancements add to a very crisp finish.
I wont ruin the film itself for you, but the performance by Peter O'Toole was simply magnificant.
Steven Speilburg and Martin Scorsose were the ones to re-mastered this edition, aswell as the remastering by the London Philomonic Soundrack for the film.
Their is Also included in the dvd is the "making of lawrence of arabia" which is very extensive and has a wonderful commentary by Omar Sharif on the director David Lean.
Their are Lots of on-set pictures which were unseen previously and other goodies for those with DVD drives on their laptops and PCs.
Special Features:
2.20 WideScreen
DVD 9 Superbit
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Dolby Digital 5.1...
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Advantages: The best DVD picture you'll get for this great film. Disadvantages: Naturally for Superbit, not extra features.
...This is one of the best films ever in my opinion. It's the one which got me really interested in how films are made and was the primary reason for my family making the transition to DVD and home cinema. But I am just going to talk about the Superbit DVD here. Edit: i.e. not the film itself. I have now written a short summary of the film's story and opinion on its various aspects in my review of the Extended Edition.
Someone asked what Superbit was. It is a trademark of Sony Pictures and a sort of sub-label in their DVD catalogue, which is Columbia Tristar. So DVDs released by studios such as Warner, Twentieth Century Fox, EIV etc, will not be getting Superbit releases unless those studios come up with their own or other deals are made.
Superbit DVDs contain no extras features. The space freed up by this omission is used to provide...
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