The Bone Collector (1999)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.3/10   

Director:

Phillip Noyce

Escritores (WGA):

Jeffery Deaver (book)
Jeremy Iacone (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

5 noviembre 1999 (USA)

Género:

Crimen | Drama | Horror | Misterio | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

Two cops on the trail of a brutal killer. They must see as one, they must act as one, they must think as one, before the next victim falls.

Plot:

Denzel Washington plays a quadriplegic homicide detective. He and his female partner track down a serial killer.

Plot Keywords:

Serial Killer | Police | Quadriplegic | Crime Scene | Seizure

Premios:

3 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Dark And Moody

US TV Schedule:

Sun. July 12	8:00 PM	AMC
Mon. July 13	1:30 AM	AMC

Reparto

Denzel Washington	...	Lincoln Rhyme
Angelina Jolie	...	Amelia Donaghy
Queen Latifah	...	Thelma
Michael Rooker	...	Captain Howard Cheney
Mike McGlone	...	Detective Kenny Solomon
Luis Guzmán	...	Eddie Ortiz (as Luis Guzman)
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 (as Jim Bulleit)
Frank Fontaine	...	Grandfather

También conocida como:

El coleccionista de huesos (Argentina) (Peru) (Spain) (Venezuela) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violent content including grisly images, and for language.

Duración:

118 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

DTS | SDDS | Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Malaysia:18SG | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Brazil:14 | Canada:14A (British Columbia) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:16+ (Quebec) | Canada:18A (Alberta) | Canada:R (Manitoba/Ontario) | Chile:14 | Denmark:15 | Finland:K-16 | France:-12 | Germany:16 | Hong Kong:IIB | Ireland:15 | Japan:PG-12 | Netherlands:16 | New Zealand:M | Norway:18 | Peru:14 | Portugal:M/16 | Singapore:PG | South Korea:18 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:R (certificate #36863) | Philippines:R-18 | Iceland:16

Locaciones de Filmación:

Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, New York, USA

Compañía:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivialidades:

Cameo del director: [Phillip Noyce]a man browsing through books in the bookstore that Angelina Jolie enters.

Errores:

Continuidad: When Rhyme and the other police are examining the evidence on the track, Rhyme refers to the bolt as "iron" but doesn't find out until later that the bolt is iron, not steel.

Citas:

Richard Thompson: Some people win... some people lose... the game is over.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en "HBO First Look: The Making of 'Girl, Interrupted' (#7.1)" (2000)

Banda de Sonido:

McKenzie

Dark And Moody

A bed ridden, paraplegic NYC detective, Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington), teams up with a rookie cop named Amelia (Angelina Jolie) to try and catch a serial killer, in this dark, moody atmospheric thriller from Director Phillip Noyce. This is a fine thriller.

From the get-go viewers understand that an intelligent maniac is on the loose, and could strike at any time. That is the very definition of cinematic tension. In addition, the killer uses dark, subterranean spaces to torture and kill victims. That inky darkness, together with a haunting musical score further amplifies suspense.

But, the solution to the whodunit puzzle is ultimately unsatisfying because the screenwriter withholds important back-story from viewers. This could have been so easily fixed with the addition of a line or two of dialogue and/or a brief added scene near the film's beginning. Even so, good plot misdirection creates ample red herrings, so that the killer's identity is not a foregone conclusion.

The film's cinematography, production design, and editing are fine. Washington does a good job as the paralyzed cop. But Angelina Jolie is miscast; she pouts her way through the film looking like she's bored out of her mind. The support cast helps a lot, with highly credible performances from delightful Queen Latifah, capable Ed O'Neill, and reliable Michael Rooker.

The crime scenes tended unfortunately to be in-your-face grizzly. But at least the gore quotient was minimal.

For dark, moody serial killer films set in NYC, I prefer "Sea Of Love" (1989). Nevertheless, "The Bone Collector" can be enjoyed for its elevated level of suspense, its fine cinematography, and its generally high level of acting. Be advised, however, that the film's finale may be a disappointment if you expect all the whodunit puzzle pieces to fall into place, neat and tidy.