Shootout at Lokhandwala

Name: Shootout at Lokhandwala

Genre: Action/Crime/Drama

Cast: Vivek Oberoi, Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Shetty, Arbaaz Khan, Apoorva Lakhia (Director)

Synopsis: Brooms were used to clear the area around the Swati building and TVN reporter Meeta Mattu was reporting that a large police squad with heavy ammunition was used around a peaceful residential area of Swati building in Lokhandwala. In the office of Ex-chief Justice and now a private advocate Dhingra is having discussions with the three officers of Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) on whom Human rights commission is massive angry and launched a heavy protest against them. These officers are additional commissioner of police Shamsher Khan (Sanjay Dutt), Inspector Kaviraj Patil (Sunil Shetty) and inspector Javed Shiekh (Arbaaz Khan). As Dhingra is having discussions asking questions from them, the movie went into flashback.

Shamsher Khan told Dhingra about how the ATS was formed as to counter modern day terrorism he got the idea from SWAT and form ATS from the best candidates from police including Kaviraj and Javed. There only motive was shoot to kill as modern day terrorist are growing more and more and trouble for public. He also tells how some people from Punjab after blue star operation came to Bombay in Sikh dominated areas and he did his best try to clear them out. Then he tells him about a man recently turned into gangster named Maya (Vivek Oberoi) and how he stars killing people and instigating fear in the minds of people and big businessmen in the city and that’s how he come under scanner of Dawood Ibrahim. He stars recruiting the best shooters in the city. Now at this point Maya and his men are on top of Bombay/Mumbai and reporting directly to Dawood in Dubai.

Khan and his men of ATS are focusing of eliminating Maya and his men in the city. A game of cat and mouse stars when Shamsher Khan and men kill some of Maya’s men and Maya on other side kills some of big businessmen and local people and even the police personnel many times. Shamsher Khan and his ATS men try to put pressure of relatives and families of Maya and his men to get them out but it too went wrong because Maya and his men do came out but at wrong time giving serious warning to Khan, Kaviraj and Javed to stay away from their families otherwise their families will to not be safe at all. Maya asks a builder named Wadhwani to give him ransom as protection money for his life to be safe but Wadhwani bluntly replied to him that he has direct connections to his boss in Dubai and he is nothing to him and he shouldn’t call him again or he will face dire consequences. As Maya was mad and in rage send his men to Wadhwani’s office and to comply to his demands or he will face consequences. Maya’s men took some token money from their and demanded the rest of money to be delivered to him within no time.

Wadhwani gave half the amount asked by Maya as told by Dawood but Maya asks Wadhwani to bring the rest of the money and take away his son and till that his son will remain with them. Fearing that, Wadhwani called Dawood and told the whole story and requested him to talk to Maya to release his only son. Dawood called Maya what is doing and he should release Wadhwani’s son immediately but Maya refused in doing that saying “its mine men pride and he can’t back off now at any cost to rule on Mumbai”.

Now comes the day on which this shootout took place. Shamsher Khan told him that one of his informers told him that Maya and his men are hiding in a flat of Swati building in Lokhandwala. Shamsher Khan with his ATS men with full ammunition and armory went to Swati building. Maya and his men were still holding Wadhwani’s son as hostage. One of Maya’s men who was outside the Swati building came to know that Police is surrounding the area around Swati building and looking for all of them with an intent to kill. Maya seeing that came to understand that too this time for sure something bloody will happen. ACP Shamsher Khan to reached the area and was soon welcomed by a RPG fired by Maya’s men but Khan survived. Soon the gun battle starts. People were warned to get out of the building quickly. Policemen stars going inside the building with full force. Empty bullet shells were everywhere. Soon all of them including Maya were killed by police in the shootout. Reporter Meeta Mattu covers this entire gunbattle between police and Maya and his men.

In the end, Dhingra in courts starts with the conventional defense for the officers of ATS including Shamsher Khan who were involved in this Shootout or gun battle. Khan and his men were released from the charges instigated on them by court.

Review: As based on original events from the rumors of the Shootout that took place at Lokhanwadala, the movie was beautifully crafted and made. Direction of Approva was good as he tried to put the whole shooting part into a well made action scenario with ease. Performance of Vivek Oberoi was great but for Sanjay Dutt it wasn’t that much effective as it should have been. Rest of cast performance were good and up to the mark. Music of the movie was average although some parts of the movie was being stretched unnecessary which could have been avoided. Sometimes it is also felt that went off track many times. But was great part of the movie was the climax. It’s great as how the gun battle sequences’ are being shot and the music related to it was just great. Overall it is a good movie to watch with a good amount of action and a decent amount of Entertainment.

Stars given: 2.5 out of 5.

Agneepath

Name: Agneepath (1990)

Genre: Action/Crime/Drama

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Mithun Chakraborty, Danny Denzongpa, Mukul S. Anand (Director)

Synopsis: Deenanath Chauhan is a school master in village Mandwa who has high moral grounds and is an honest man. His was teaching his son a poem named “Agneepath” the path of fire which everyone has to cross in his life. Deenanath is well loved and respected by the villagers. He wants that everyone including the child should be educated in the village and no one should be included in the bad deeds. But the Village headman doesn’t share the same opinion as he does. One day which playing with his friends and he saw a man named Kancha Cheena (Danny Denzongpa) arrives in the village meeting Village headman Dinkar Rao. He came to know that Kancha wants to make the village Mandwa into a drug trade centre as the village in not on the map of India and it will easier for him to do so. But he has to take down teacher Deenanath as he is the one who is causing hindrance in his plans. Dinkar Rao made a setup for Deenanath. With the help of the owner of the brothel he sets up Deenath and villagers seeing this beats teacher Denanath to death. His wife and both the child after so much humiliation went to Mumbai to start a new life.

He starts working on odd jobs for making his family living and as he grows old he came across the various harsh realities of life. One day when someone starts forcing with his mother his burns down his petrol pump. His bail is being given by four local goons who later on indulge him with themselves. Now Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan) has grown old and now he is a gangster with class, style and most of things he has values for the poor people. One day when he refused to indulge with the drugs business of those four of his bosses, they tried to kill him. But a man named Krishnan (Mithun Chakraborty) saved him. When Vijay was recovering from hospital he secretly killed 2 of them. But as now Vijay is a gangster he was not liked by his mother and his sister doesn’t know much about him.

Later he tries to strike a deal with Kancha to let him enter in Mandwa so that both of them can do business. Kancha agrees to that but warns him that if he ever tries to cut his way, he will not spare him and in return for their partnership he gives him his 3^rd boss. Vijay on his wife advice slowly starts taking down Kancha by taking out his men one by one and gathering proofs against Kancha and later on helped police in taking down Kancha. Kancha was arrested. Meanwhile the last of the 4 bosses kidnaps Vijay’s sister. Krishnan with his last breath effort too was there with Vijay’s daughter to save him from his last boss and the fighting starts began between both of them. Vijay hearing this news and seeing that police also is not able to enter the place where his sister is being taken went in with his men with full force and eventually saved his sister, Krishnan and killed his last boss.

In a festival, Kancha’s men tries to kill Vijay but Krishnan came in between and he got badly hurt. Vijay took him to hospital and saw that his most faithful men is being shot dead as well as the only living proof/witness to be produced against Vijay is also killed by Kancha. Commissioner told Vijay that his mother, sister and wife as well as his child is being taken hostage by Kancha but he will do everything in his power to save him. Finally Vijay went to Mandwa village by himself. Kancha had made the traps for him in advance. Being torn out and bad shape, Vijay finally confronts Kancha. Houses were exploded and whole of the path was filled with fire. Kancha challenges Vijay to come across and if he dares saves his mother, his wife, his sister and his son. Krishnan too arrives there and starts shooting at Kancha’s men. Vijay starts running towards Kancha from that path of fire. Instead of being shot twice he fights with Kancha and eventually kills him. Now Vijay as being not being able to move as he is already shot twice too passes away across his mother saying “Agneepath” in an emotional context. In the end his mother was saying “My son is not a Gangster.”

Review: It is always said, some movies are just made great and this is one of them. Everything fits in its rightful place. Direction of Mukul S. Anand was just awesome. The way he has directed the movie was just great. Some performances are ever green and Amitabh Bachchan’s performance is one of them in this movie. His character in this movie lived alive. And in no way credit can be taken away from the Danny Denzongpa which is absolutely brilliance and with class. In this movie the hero and villain how they actually should be looked in the movie looks that way. Music of the movie just mind blowing suits to the context of the movie appropriately. Dialogues of the movie were great and rest of cast performance is also very good. A great movie is one where all the segments of the movie fit to its rightful place and everyone plays its part with equal importance. This movie has it all. People say Old is Gold. This had it.      

Stars given: 5 out of 5.

Ghayal (1990)

Name: Ghayal

Genre: Action/Crime

Cast: Sunny Deol, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Amrish Puri, Om Puri, Rajkumar Santoshi (Director)

Synopsis: Ajay Mehra (Sunny Deol) lives with his brother Ashok Mehra and his sister in law Indu in Bombay (now Mumbai). He is an amateur boxer who is in love with a girl named Varsha (Meenakshi Sheshadri). Ashok is a businessman who is facing problems regarding his business but he tells some of his problems with his wife but doesn’t share anything with his brother. His brother is on a boxing training camp at Banglore. Ashok when utmost frustrated talks to his brother but when he was about tell the problem phone got cut. When he came back, he came to that his brother is missing. He tries to inquire about the same but all in vain. He went to police for complaint but nothing was happening. He even went to Balawant Rai’s PA for asking about his brother but everyone was giving vague answers. All this leads to utter frustration. Later he came across to a drunkard who promises to reveals secrets about his brother if he gave him money and he revealed the secret. He told Ajay that he know his brother. He suffered some losses in business and Balwant Rai (Amrish Puri) came to his rescue and cleared all his debts. In lieu of that he became his partner and started illegal businesses under this partnership and this is his way of doing illegal activities framing honest men and Ashok was in tension due to this reason. He tries to stop Balwant Rai but all in vain but Balwant Rai threatens him with grave consequences if he do so. He said that he had collected evidences against Balwant Rai and if he has not given the evidence to Balwant Rai then he might be alive but if he had give them then he probably might be dead. Hearing this Ajay straight went to Balwant Rai and asked him to return his brother otherwise he will not spare him.

Later Balwant Rai called Ajay and told him to save his brother if he can. Ajay reached to the spot where Balwant called him to arrive and found that his brother is dead. Later police came there and arrest Ajay. They framed Ajay in killing of his own brother as he had illicit relationship with his sister-in-law. Ajay was sent to jail and his sister in law couldn’t bear this trauma and commits suicide. Ajay after telling his whole story to his companions become friends and they told him that they will help Ajay in his revenge. After forming a plot for escape all of them escaped from the Jail. One by one he started killing all the people who had framed him in that murder charge. Balwant Rai also came to know that Ajay had escaped has well. Commissioner of police also came to know about some people has escaped from jail but when he sees their snaps he remember that one of them is Ajay who had came to him as well for help for looking for his brother but he didn’t helped him as well. Police started looking and killing for Ajay and his men and Ajay was killing those who framed him in wrong murder charges. When only Balwant Rai was left alive, Ajay told him that he will kill him in next 24 hours. Being in frustration Balwant Rai came to know that Varsha is Ajay’s girlfriend and Kidnaps her. Ajay in rage went to Balwant Rai’s area and completely destroys that. Meanwhile police officer who is in charge of this case came to know it not the Ajay who is wrong but is the Balwant Rai and the wrong system due to which Ajay has taken this route as Balwant Rai’s PA has given a written statement for the same and asks commissioner why has this happened. Commissioner promises him that he will take action against Balwant Rai and bring him to court but first he has to stop Ajay to kill Balwant Rai so that crime can’t be commited.

On other side, Ajay was following Balwant Rai’s with full force and they they started fighting in an Amusement park. Police arrived there and stopped Ajay killing Balwant Rai but Ajay being assisted by Varsha, finally kills Balwant Rai. In the end, Ajay went out of that amusement park where people were clapping for him.

Review: One of the great movies made by Rajkumar Santoshi. Absolutely brilliant. Direction was awesome. Performances of Sunny Deol and Amrish Puri were at level best. It’s like is just made alive every time anyone will see it. It moved with a great pace and all the time movie remained focused on its core story and didn’t went off track even at once. Cinematography was good and so were dialogues. Performances of other cast like Meenashi Sheshadri, Om Puri, Raj Babbar etc were also good and fully focused to movie core story. It’s a movie with jam packed action and full of entertainment and is a must watch for everyone and specially for those who is a diehard fan of Sunny Deol. 

  

Stars given: 4.5 out of 5 

A Few Good Men

Name: A Few Good Men

Genre: Crime/Drama/Mystery/Thriller

Cast: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, Rob Reiner (Director)

Synopsis: It starts with the way that two U.S. marines are being charged for killing the fellow marine. Lance Corporal Harold Dawson and PFC Louden Downey are charged with the murdering a fellow marine named PFC William Santiago at Guantanamo Bay Naval base in Cuba which is under command of Col. Nathan R. Jessup (Jack Nicholson). Santiago was not able to compete with the training of Navy as compared to his fellow marines and was not able to earn respect of others. Santiago went outside the chain of command and went to superiors directly asking a transfer from that base and in due for exchange information about how Dawson fired an illegal shot at his opposite Cuban counterpart. When Jessup came to know this information through their superiors, he called a meeting between Lt. Col. Markinson and Lt. Kendrick which is Santiago’s commanding officer. Meeting turned into a heated argument as Markinson was in favor of transferring Santiago but Jessup ordered Kendrick that Santiago will not be transferred from base and it is now Kendrick’s responsibility to train him otherwise he will deal with Kendrick in his own way. Later Dawson and Downey were arrested for charges of murder. Naval Investigator and Lawyer Lt. Com. Joanne Galloway (Demi Moore) think that it is a “Code Red” case and request her superiors that let her deal with this case But the case of given to Lt. Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) another Naval officer and Lt. Sam Weinberg to assist him. During the initial stages Kaffee and Joanne didn’t went along well but later on they went with each other for the case very well.

Kaffee tried to strike an out of court deal with the prosecution captain Jack Ross but Dawson and Downey didn’t approved as they tell Kaffee that it was Kendrick who gave them order to give Santiago a code red even though in the meeting with other men of the company Kendrick order them not to touch Santiago at all. As the case precedes Kaffee who was defending Dawson and Downey starts proving in the court that his clients were given a code red by his superiors but they suffered a major setback when Jack prosecuted them and Downey admitted that he wasn’t there when Kendrick ordered them to give code red. Meanwhile on other side, Lt Col. Markinson told Kaffee that Santiago was never to be transferred from the base and it was orders given directly by Col. Jessup. On the day when Kaffee and his team suffered the setback of Downey concealment of such information, Joanne asks Kaffee to use Markinson’s testimony as their defense but Kaffee told them that he also had committed suicide and Kaffee was in a pure drunkard state and cursing himself why he fought this case. Joanne asks Kaffee to call Jessup in the court and make him say that he was the one who ordered code red. Kaffee initially didn’t accept this request as he will directly be court martialled for making elegations on such a high rank officer but later on agrees to do so. Jessup was called in the court to be prosecuted by Kaffee. Initially Jessup outsmarted Kaffee’s every question and make a joke out of Kaffee’s questions but Kaffee finds loop hole in his testimony where Jessup said that Santiago was transferred from the base for his own safety but Santiago was not to be touched by the other members of the platoon then why he has said earlier that Santiago’s life was in danger. As Jessup couldn’t handle the pressure given by Kaffee on this point of his own testimony, he finally agreed that it was him who ordered Kendrick to give Santiago a code red which under his understanding a right decision as to national interest and security at right hands which led to arrest of Col. Jessup. The court cleared the charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder on Dawson and Downey but found guilty of “conduct unbecoming” a U.S. marine and will be dishonorably discharged. Downey asks that Jessup accepts himself that he was the one who ordered court red and they did nothing wrong but Dawson told him that they were suppose to fight for Santiago who couldn’t fight for themselves. When Dawson was about to leave the court, Kaffee told Dawson that he doesn’t need a patch on his arm to have honor and in response to that Dawson Salutes Kaffee.

Review: One of the very good films of Tom Cruise. Story of the movie was brilliant. Tom Cruise performance in the movie was with full of energy and enthusiasm. Rest of the cast performance was also very good. Movie holds its story line together all the time. The seriousness shown in the movie regarding the developments happened in the movie by Rob was very appreciable. Movie contains good amount of thrills and mystery that will make u sit till the end. No doubt first half of the movie was little slow and stretchy to but it was very well compensated by the second half of the movie. As a whole, the movie is very well made with a very good script, brilliant and energetic performance by Tom cruise and is full of thrills and mystery.

Stars given: 4 out of 5

Salt

Name: Salt

Genre: Action/Thriller/Mystery/Crime

Cast: Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Philip Noyce (Director)

Synopsis: Evelyn Salt (Angeline Jolie) being an American spy is accused of espionage is being tortured at North Korea prison. She will soon be exchanged with a North Korean prisoner by her colleague and CIA agent Ted Winter (Liev Schreiber) who escorts her during the trade. She asked why she is being traded to which Winter replied that it was Mike Krause and his persistence with the department which forces them to have an exchange for your freedom. On the wedding anniversary of Salt and Mike, a defector from Russia came to CIA’s office and telling them that he could give them some useful information. Salt beings to interrogate him with Winter and CIA officer Darryl Peabody.  He tells that his name is Oleg Orlov and tells her that during Cold war Russia has kidnapped American children and replaced them with Russian children and now is being trained to destroy America. They are called KA-12s and will come into action on Day-X where they will kill Russian president Boris Matveyev who is working as a great pace in improving relationship of Russia with US on the day of American’s Vice President Funeral. When they were about to leave Orlov told them that “Salt” is one of those KA-12s. Salt rubbishes this non sense and pleaded that she has nothing to do with it. Soon seeing argue between Winter and Darryl, she believed that she is in danger and escapes from there. Orlov too after telling all the story of KA-12s escapes from there as well. Salt tried to contact Mike but the apartment’s voice call again and again. When Salt reached apartment seeing his chair and half eaten sandwich, she understands that Mike is kidnapped by someone.

When Winter and Peabody reached Salt’s home, she managed to escape from there but Winter sees her and both Winter and Peabody starts chasing her. When Salt was almost cornered by them she jumped on a nearby passing truck and then takes a motorbike and escapes from there. She stayed at small motel in the night, plans her next step of action. After dyeing her hair and changing her identity Salt enters the funeral throws a bomb on a roof above the Russian president and kills guys from the secret service. Peabody comes to the scene and arrests Salt even though Salt can kill him but she didn’t and surrender to him. When Peabody’s men were taking Salt to Jail, Salt knocks them out and escapes from there. While taking Russian president to hospital, he was pronounced dead as he had no pulse from that period. Riots start beginning to happen in Moscow. Salt meets Orlov in a scrapping metal yard with other KA-12s agents. It is also revealed now that Orlov is the man who had trained Salt to become the sleeper agent that is KA-12s agent. She was taken to a ship which serves home for Russian spies by Orlov. In the ship, she saw Mike being taken as hostage. Orlov throws him into water to see whether she is loyal to him or not but she didn’t react which confirms her loyalty. He introduces her with fellow agents and told her that she about to meet one of their spy disguised as NATO officer who will help her in her next mission. She killed Orlov and rest of people present there and takes guns and grenades with him. She meets Shnaider who helps Salt in entering the white house as his male aide as a Czech NATO.  Shnaider attacks the CIA guards present there. Winter and other CIA personnel took US president to the underground bunker. Salt kills every person that comes in her way. Meanwhile, US president’s advisors were forcing him to use nuclear attack on Russia to teach them a lesson as Salt is here to kill him but president didn’t permit to launch the attack. Winter kills everyone present there except the President and introduces him as a Russian named Nikolai. He knocks the president out and aims to fire missiles on Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Tehran and Iran so that after the missile fallout they will unite and take action against US.

Salt reached the bunker and told that she also want to join him in destroying US but seeing the reports that Russian President is still alive as he was only being temporarily paralytic. He didn’t let her in the glass coated room and told her that she will be the one behind saving Russian president by giving venom of the spiders of Mike. He didn’t trust after her return from North Korea. He tells that he knew from the beginning that she had fallen in love with Mike and he was the one who asked Orlov to kidnap Mike and kill him. Hearing this, Salt come in range and after some desperate attempts enters the room. Salt and Winter starts fighting but when the missile activation was almost complete Salt pulls the plug of the computer and cancels the missile strike but during that got shot by Secret Service men. When both Winter and Salt were escorted out, as being handcuffed Salt wrapped her handcuffs around Winter’s neck and jumps in balcony resulting in killing him. Peabody took Salt to take her to FBI. In the chopper he asked Salt why did she kill her why she killed Winter to which she replied someone has too. Salt convinces Peabody that she was the good guy and Winter was the bad one. She convinces him that she will take out rest of the remaining KA sleeper agents as they took everything away from her. Somehow being convinced by her Peabody let her escape through the river.

          

Review: One of the damn good spying types of movie which is full of action and thriller. Angelina Jolie proved that why she is one of the best action movie performers in Hollywood. Angelina performance is the movie absolute brilliant. Movie contains some mind bowling stunts and actions sequences which will make you thrilled at the fullest. Story of the movie was very unique and creative and in addition to that the pace and focus given on the story of the movie was damn good. Noyce remained to his strengths of his direction in this movie too. Every actor of the crew performed his or her role with full conviction. Spy aspects of movie were shown very well in the movie with some brilliant stunts and long chases. The movie just looked like a Bond type of movie where Angelina and Noyce made it an absolute thriller with jam packed action. A must watch movie.

Stars given: 4 out of 5.

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.