The Bone Collector
I didn’t want to watch the movie as I had seen it already like 5 times. But then I realized that I didn’t quite understand the story, only the scenes looked familiar.
The movie opens with Angelina Jolie as Amelia, a cop discovering the a body of a millionaire half buried near an Amtrak railway in New York with the index finger cut off. The wife of this guy was taken while alive and brought to a place underneath the streets where she died, killed by hot steam being blown on her.
Lincoln Rhyme played by Denzel Washington is a paralyzed decorated forensics ex-detective whose mind is still active and very much interested in helping solve the case. He recognized Amelia’s potential in forensics observing the initiative she displayed when she stopped the Amtrak train because of the crime scene at hand.
The murderer would not kill his prime victims himself but set them up to die from causes natural or orchestrated by him, leaving little bits of paper as a puzzle for Lincoln, on his hi-tech hospital bed with the computers, scanners and all the gadgets around, to decipher.
It later turned out that the little pieces of paper put together showed the logo of a publisher of turn-of-the-century crime books where one of the books was titled The Bone Collector. Not so original this one. The murderer was actually following the storyline of The Bone Collector in presenting his crime scenes which was the final clue leading to the rescue of the final victim, a little girl who was tied with her grandpa to the post of a wharf and left to drown when the tide came up.
The movie is quite gruesome as it pictures flesh being cut out of arms or legs just to take out a piece of bone from a living person. And Lincoln actually bites the murderer’s neck his teeth cutting into the jugular vein (yucks!), his mouth all bloody when the murderer finally goes into his apartment to kill him.
Unknown to Lincoln, during his active days when he made a lot of pronouncements and opinions on pending cases, his opinion sent to jail one cop who was on the losing end. This guy held that against him and started killing people, taking out a piece of bone, to catch his attention. This point is what makes the movie confusing. Why take pains to kill other people when he could just go straight to Lincoln’s apartment to kill him? After all, Lincoln could hardly fight back given his situation.
Overall, it was an interesting, yucky movie if we remove the vindictive twist. And oh, Lincoln told Amelia when he was giving her a pep talk that “Destiny is what we make it.” During a discussion on his “final transition”, his arranged euthanasia, Amelia had the chance to tell him that too. Touché!
well, the movie is actually pretty good.. the book especially. I have the second to the last book that features Rhyme - The Cold Moon.
See, the movie had to be something in the realm of forensics as it would defeat the purpose that he is an ex-forensic. Plus, if the killer simply killed Rhyme, it would kind of be anticlimatic, and it would not give the killer a sense of satisfaction. What better way to deal with payback by killing Rhyme through the very thing he is supposed to be the expert of? dba?
hehehe yucky mi?
you should watch SAW I, II, III, IV,… LOL now THAT.. is sick. LMAO.
honestly, i like the way the killer thinks, and i like the way Rhyme thinks.. so complex.. such detail… such… intelligence. LOL
wla ra pud.
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you wanna read Cold Moon? It’s good too.
lurtsil said this on April 1, 2009 at 5:37 am
If the murderer killed Rhyme straight out, there would have been no movie BUT seeing how he had already killed several people already “in the last 12 mos.” without the NYPD noticing that it was one and the same guy is like a hit and miss situation.. and the killer doesn’t even know if the case would be handled by Rhyme as he is already been separated from the NYPD. Hehehe!! kung mangita jod og lusot — molusot jod — hehehe! and dili sa ko read og book coz am gettin dizzy najod..
jai01 said this on April 1, 2009 at 8:31 pm