If you expected another "Seven", let alone "Silence Of The Lambs" (with which this movie has been compared to in advertising trailers), you need to wait a little longer. "The Bone Collector" is one boring film, with a plot which is so thin you can wrap tobacco in it and call it a cigarette. In that case, you would need a pretty powerful filter, because this needs some help digesting.

The movie counts on the chemistry between the main two stars, Washington, who plays a quadraplegic police forensic expert, and a rookie street cop, played by Jolie. However, the writer spent so little time studying that chemistry, that he would get an F on any final exam. Otherwise sexy and sleek Jolie seems awkward in the same frame with Denzel, and miscast in the solo scenes. Denzel, on the other hand, has only "one finger, shoulders and a brain" to act with, and he does a decent job, but that just does not work as a dramatic tool. Yeah, the scene where Jolie fondles the aforementioned finger has some sexual tension, but only if you read too many Freud books. But what insults a movie fan the most, is that the script is such an obvious rip-off of so many better movies, "Rear Window", above all others.

The plot revolves around a mysterious killer who spends insane amounts of time and effort to set up a murder scene so the police can get some clues about his next gruesome enterprise. In the end, it turns out that those clues are three little pieces of paper that indicate a book on the top shelf in the back room of a second-hand bookstore, that describes the next murder. And if that is not enough, the identity of the killer himself is very unreal, and resolution has far too many logical holes for a non-007 movie without as much as half the charm. You ask yourself, "why" so many times in the movie it’s not even amusing. Bottom line is, I’d like to see a good documentary on police forensics and examining the crime scene, but not two hours long, and not for seven bucks.