The Bone Collector
Denzel Washington plays a quadriplegic homicide detective. He and his female partner track down a serial killer.
- Director:Phillip Noyce
- Genre:Drama / Mystery / Thriller
- Runtime:113 minutes
Cast
Denzel Washington: Lincoln Rhyme
Angelina Jolie : Amelia Donaghy
Queen Latifah : Thelma
Michael Rooker: Captain Howard Cheney
Mike McGlone : Detective Kenny Solomon
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A quadriplegic ex-forensics expert, Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington) and a patrol cop, Amelia Donaghy (Angelina Jolie), team up to solve a string of murders all connected to a serial killer by his signature: a single shard of bone is removed from each of the victims. Rhyme is bed-ridden, but communicates with Amelia via phone as she examines the various crime scenes and collects evidence and reports back to him. Lincoln is completely oblivious to Amelia’s extradordinary good looks – they operate on a purely professional level, and Lincoln’s almost morbid fascination in her is based on her professionalism and ‘knack’ for crime solving.
The killer poses as a New York taxi driver, and abducts and kills those who get in his taxi. The first two victims are a married couple named Alan and Lindsay Rubin, who get a taxi home but then find themselves kidnapped by the killer. Amelia finds Alan’s body buried in a Civil War-era railroad bed. She also finds a piece of shellfish, which eventually leads Amelia – working with Rhyme – to Alan’s wife , and a scrap of paper. The detectives find Mrs. Rubin, too late, at a steam junction in a below ground services area of a building in the financial district, secured using old handcuffs or shackles at the mouth of a pipe which emits steam. She has been scalded to death from the steam. The killer has also removed a bit of flesh and bone from her arm. Amelia finds another scrap of paper at the scene.
The killer then abducts an NYU student. He is taken to a derelict slaughterhouse where he is tied to a pole and gutted with a knife, and left for rats to feed on. Amelia and Rhyme, using the clue left by the killer at the scene of Lindsay Rubin’s death (rat hairs embedded in a bone from a cow’s body), find the victim, but again too late to save him. Again, the killer has removed a piece of the victim’s bone. Amelia is able to collect the evidence, including another scrap of paper. The pressure of the tense investigation and bureaucratic challenges to both Amelia’s and Rhyme’s involvement with the case are having serious impacts on Rhyme’s health and stability. Read more
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