The Bone Collector --Superbit

Starring: Angelina Jolie, Denzel Washington Director: Phillip Noyce Original UK Premiere: 2000 Dvd Release: 14th October, 2002 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding Subtitled In: Dutch, English, Hindi

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Released in late 1999, The Bone Collector was originally promoted as a thriller in the tradition of The Silence of the Lambs & 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 & the modest rewards of a well-handled formula. With a terrific cast at his service, director Phillip Noyce turns the pulpy indulgence of Jeffery Deavers novel into a slick potboiler that is grisly fun only if you dont 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 & suicidal depression, forensics detective Lincoln Rhyme gets a new lease on life with a sharp young beat cop whos a wizard at analyzing crime scenes. She does field work while he deciphers clues from his high-tech Manhattan loft, & 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 & taking morbid pleasure in his revelation of the murder scenes. And yet it all works, to a point, & the cast is much better than the material. If youre looking for a few good thrills, The Bone Collector is a pretty safe bet.

Angelina Jolie, born Angelina Jolie Voight is an American actress who is as renowned for her exotic looks, sensual lips & tattoos, as well as for her acting ability. She is a respected artist & has received three Golden Globes, as well as an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Lisa Rowe in the film Girl, Interrupted. Additionally Jolie has starred in five student films, all of which were directed by her brother James Haven. Jolie, the daughter of actor Jon Voight & Marcheline Bertrand, was born in Los Angeles, California & as a child dreamt of becoming a funeral director. She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute from the age of 11 & later completed a degree in film at New York University. On March 28, 1996 she married British actor Jonny Lee Miller, with whom she had co-starred in the movie Hackers. Jolie attended her wedding in black leather trousers & a white shirt, which had her husbands name painted in her blood on the back. Jolie & Miller divorced on February 3, 1999. Posters Of Angelina Jolie

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Denzel Washington is an African American, Oscar -winning actor. He was born in Mount Vernon, New York, the son of a minister & a beauty-parlour owner. In his youth, Denzel was banned by his parents from watching movies. When his parents split up, Denzel went through a rebellious stage, at the end of which several of his friends went to prison after getting into trouble. His mothers reaction was to send him away to preparatory school & then on to Fordham University, where he discovered acting & earned a degree in journalism. He landed his first film role in the 1975 TV movie Wilma. While filming this movie he met actress Pauletta Pearson, who he later married. His big break came when he starred in the popular TV hospital drama St. Elsewhere. Washington turned down roles in several action films, in hopes for a more challenging role. In 1987 he starred as South African anti-apartheid campaigner Steve Biko in Richard Attenborough s Cry Freedom. In 1989 Denzel won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, after playing a defiant self-possessed slave in the film Glory. Posters Of Denzel Washington

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