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Rating: 6.8/10 by 3469 users

The Bone Collector (1999)

Rookie cop, Amelia Donaghy reluctantly teams with Lincoln Rhyme – formerly the department's top homicide detective but now paralyzed as a result of a spinal injury – to catch a grisly serial killer dubbed 'The Bone Collector'. The murderer's special signature is to leave tantalizing clues based on the grim remains of his crimes.

Directing:
  • Phillip Noyce
  • Barbara Stoia
  • Monique Champagne
  • Ricky Friedman
  • Agnieszka Kroskowska
  • Anne Alloucherie
  • Kenneth G. Brown
  • Jonathan Goldman
  • Christopher Bregman
  • Noga Isackson
  • Charles-André Bertrand
  • Patrick Mangan
  • Regina Sabat-Dhouib
Writing:
  • Jeffery Deaver
  • Jeremy Iacone
Stars:
Release Date: Thu, Nov 04, 1999

Rating: 6.8/10 by 3469 users

Alternative Title:
Збирач кісток - UA
Kolektsionerŭt - BG
Sylléktis Ostón - GR
Vlast' strakha - RU
Sakupljač kostiju - RS
Vlada strakhu - UA
人骨拼图 - CN
Der Knochenjäger - DE
骨中罪 - CN

Country:
United States of America
Language:
English
Runtime: 01 hour 58 minutes
Budget: $73,000,000
Revenue: $151,493,655

Plot Keyword: new york city, taxi, based on novel or book, paraplegic, psychopath, detective, investigation, serial killer, crime scene, rookie cop
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Angelina Jolie
Amelia Donaghy
Michael Rooker
Captain Howard Cheney
Michael McGlone
Detective Kenny Solomon
Luis Guzmán
Eddie Ortiz
Leland Orser
Richard Thompson
John Benjamin Hickey
Dr. Barry Lehman
Bobby Cannavale
Steve, Amelia's Boyfriend
Ed O'Neill
Detective Paulie Sellitto
Richard Zeman
Lieutenant Carl Hanson
Olivia Birkelund
Lindsay Rubin
Gary Swanson
Alan Rubin
James Bulleit
Train Engineer
Zena Grey
Granddaughter
Desmond Campbell
Taxi Inspector
Peter Michael Dillon
Homicide Detective
Ted Whittall
Ortiz's Assistant
Andy Bradshaw
Uniform Cop
Steve Adams
Gas Worker
Mercedes Gómez
Ortiz's Mother
Mary C. Hammett
Girlfriend in Nightclub
Amanda Gay
Girl in Nightclub
Larry Day
Gas Worker
Burke Lawrence
Police Instructor
Terry Simpson
Cop in Apartment
Eric Davis
Cop in Apartment
Arthur Holden
Bookstore Clerk
Yahsmin Daviault
Rhyme's Sister
David Warshofsky
Amelia's Partner
Mateo Gómez
Hot Dog Vendor
Jonathan Stark
Male Detective
Fulvio Cecere
Forensics Expert
Hal Sherman
Fingerprint Cop
Russell Yuen
Forensics Worker
Jean-Marc Bisson
Rescue Worker

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Probably my least favorite Denzel move. Nevertheless, both him and Angelina Jolie deliver a better than average performance in an interesting crime thriller. Nothing else to praise here.

JPV852

Entertaining enough crime-thriller with both Washington and Jolie giving fine performances. Nothing outstanding and the dark mood doesn't always work (did like Craig Armstrong's score which I still listen to on my iPod). The ultimate reveal of the killer was a tad weak but otherwise it was okay. **3.25/5**

The Movie Mob

**A sinister killer and ominous tone cement The Bone Collector as one of the best crime thrillers of the 90s.** The Bone Collector is one of the best thriller mystery movies out there! This eerie game of cat and mouse captivates its audience with its fast and foreboding pace and incredible performances from Denzel Washington and a young Angelina Jolie. Despite being over 20 years old and the flashy technology showcased as cutting age being very dated, The Bone Collector this thrills to this day thanks to its horrifying kills, surprising twists, and gripping tension. Critics weren't fans, and even user reviews are split, but I have no shame in recommending this dark atmospheric mystery to anyone looking for a creepy crime thriller.

GenerationofSwine

Denzel Washington, he used to be all that didn't he? He single-handedly saved "Malcolm X" from being another Spike Lee disaster flick He played the ultimate and most loathable villain the world has ever seen in "Training Day" and in the process delivered one of the best performances we have ever had the pleasure of watching. And then he settled back to play "the smart cop." In "Fallen" he was the smart cop up against the paranormal. In this film he is the smart cop that is disabled....and from here on he's going to do pretty much the same role over and over and over again. And each one is going to merge into the other leaving us to wonder what happened to that great actor that is hiding behind all those cop roles? For the mystery/thriller genre, it's not bad...but unfortunately, you're left wondering how many great movies you could have seen if he kept picking other roles. The talent is there...and its there itching to come out...unfortunately you have seen Washington play this role far too often to enjoy it. Go back to acting, Denzel, we miss you.

CinemaSerf

Denzel Washington really didn't have to get out of bed for his performance here as "Lincoln"; a now-quadriplegic forensics expert who is prone to dangerous seizures. Not wishing to risk surviving one of these in a vegetative state, he has elected for euthanasia. Before he can implement his plan, though, his former colleagues alert him to a series of grisly murders with folks in taxis being hijacked and left to die in the most horrific, sadistic fashion. Intrigued, he hooks up with rookie Angelina Jolie ("Amelia") to try to suss out who's behind these apparently unconnected crimes. It doesn't take them long to discover that their protagonist is leaving clues and when a man and his kid become the latest victims it becomes a race against time to get to them before the tide does. The suspense here is very much in the first fifty minutes, and the performances from Washington and Jolie are strong, but it can't sustain the menace and by midway through has become a rather procedural cop drama with an inevitability about it that really robs it of any real punch at the end.


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