The Bone Collector

Name: The Bone Collector

Genre: Crime/Drama/Mystery/Thriller

Cast: Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah, Philip Noyce (Director)

Synopsis: Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington) is a forensic expert who has written many investigative books and has been connected with a cop conviction. During a case in his past he got himself injured and now has become quadriplegic. Dr. Barry came to meet Lincoln and asked him about his request that is he still persistent for suicide. He agrees that he will help rhyme next week. A cab driver kidnaps a couple Alan and Lindsay Rubin from the airport who were about to board a cab to go home. Amelia Donaghy (Angelina Jolie) finds the man near a civil war era railroad area. She sees a finger, a pile of sand, a note and a bolt near the track. See stops the track passing nearby so that evidence should be deteriorated and took photographs of them. The woman kidnapped before is being taken to some underground tunnels and then handcuffed to the underground pipes. Sellitto and Solomon visit Rhyme and ask him to help them in this case to which Rhyme agreed and hearing the description he said that it is a case of Kidnapping and ransom. He asks them that who has collected these evidences and which he came to know that a local cop named Amelia. He called her and asks her that she had natural instincts for forensics and asked her to assist in this case. She didn’t want to assist but her boss forces her that she had to do so as Rhyme has asked. Rhyme after going through in detail of all the evidences he had got sure about the area and asked Amelia to investigate the area having tunnels near downtown Manhattan. Killer was about loose about to loosening steam pipe’s bolt. It has come to even Lincoln’s attention that at 4pm at that area, steam is to be released through those pipes and asked Amelia to run and look for steam pipes near there. Amelia did hear some sound near the tunnels but till she reached her, she was fried by steam to death. Amelia sees the body of the women and runs from their as she couldn’t see the dead body. The killer leaves another clue as a piece of wood, hair clippings and a bone shard which the police took from there. Amelia ran from there but Lincoln was forcing her to tell more about the crime scene.

A student was being kidnapped by a cab driver as seen by his girl. The cab driver takes that kidnapped student to an abandoned place, bound him with chains and starts torturing him. After thoroughly observing the clues and evidences Rhyme tells the Police investigating team that they should look for old stockyards and slaughter houses. When they reached there they found that the boy is being bitten badly by rats. Amelia on this crime scene finds a matchbox, an old piece of paper and a chunk of flesh missing from boy’s leg. Cheney tells Rhyme that he is off the case but Rhyme tells the team to investigate the case and move ahead. Cheney finds who the taxi driver is through the finger prints but later on found that he is also dead. Ortiz, one of the people of the investigative team tell Rhyme about the homicide that has remained unsolved with flesh missing too and derives that the killer to wants to bring this to their notice but no one noticed it before as they all seems to be linked. Rhyme then suddenly start getting shocks and passes out. Amelia sees this and asked Thelma about this to which she came to know that Rhyme has asked for assisted suicide. After some time Rhyme wakes up.

A grandfather and granddaughter took a cab. A police officer stops the cab to check the cab’s papers but the driver shot the Police officer and moved ahead. Selletto reports this incident to Rhyme and Rhyme thinks that this may be their victim. Rhyme observes the clues again and asks Amelia to find a book called “The Bone Collector” in a book shop as he had read it before and thinks that the murders being committed here are almost same as they were in that book. In the book has shown, an old man and a girl are being tied to a post over the water. Rhyme links the smell coming from the old paper was of diesel from the refueling station on Staten Island. Amelia went there with the team and found both an old man and his granddaughter hanging from a post but in the water. The old man died but the girl survived. Amelia finds some clues near this scene where she finds a map, a bone and a piece of metal which almost looks like a part of cop’s batch. The map leads Amelia to a subway station where she finds an abandoned train whose number is 78499. She remembers that she had seen this number but don’t know where and tries to remember them and soon remembers that it is the same number as Lincoln cop’s batch number. Dr. Richard came to Rhyme’s house and kills Cheney and Thelma. He tells Rhyme that Rhyme was the very reason that he went to jail and he will kill Rhyme as revenge. Richard got his hand injured during the bed override mechanism activated by Rhyme. When Richard was about to kill Rhyme, Amelia came there and shoot Richard. On Christmas Eve celebration on Rhyme’s apartment, Rhyme meets his sister and niece with other colleagues and Amelia too came there for celebration with Rhyme now has dropped the idea of assisted suicide.

Review: A decent movie with an average performance by Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. It can be said that, the performance of Denzel Washington was a little above average but not more than that. The story of the movie is a great but the director couldn’t make it on the catch of the eye on the audience. There were a lot of twists and mysteries in the movie but the director couldn’t able to capitalize on the story of the movie as to be produced by the movie itself. Music of the movie was also an average one. What disappoints the most is that the story develops during the first of half the movie which makes you think that movie is going very well doesn’t relate to the climax the movie presented.   

Stars given: 2.5 out of 5.