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75Slick entertainment.
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70A tribute to old-fashioned craftsmanship and skill both on and off the screen, it's as crisp and efficient as its law enforcement protagonists, able to make the best of its traditional genre elements.
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70Both leads perform admirably.
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67A skeleton-thin thriller wrapped in glamorous production values.
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63Entertaining but terminally dopey.
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Weaknesses are confirmed in the movie's laughable climax.
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63Washington and Jolie earn their stripes here, but more texture would have resulted, I think, in more terror.
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60Although the film disappoints in the final stretch (both the villain and his motive turn out to be very lame), it confidently thrills for most of its nearly two-hour length.
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60May be formulaic...but many good recipes are.
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58Quickly assumes the characteristics of a bad slasher movie.
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50The quality of the acting is so much better than the material deserves.
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50Two gifted co-stars, Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie, and the highly imaginative thriller specialist Phillip Noyce lend some luster and credibility to another borderline-absurd scenario.
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50This variation on the "Rear Window" format works best when director Noyce gives free rein to Washington's thoughtful charm.
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50The plot and characters are simultaneously far-fetched and cliched, the dialogue has that jocular, slightly slower than sitcom ring, and the ending is a righteously cheesy letdown.
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Often falls flat.
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50This is neither a psychological thriller nor an erotic one, so any interest in the story is purely the work of its stars.
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50The ending stinks.
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50Climaxes in an ending of such sleazy preposterousness that it's almost worth the price of admission alone.
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50A middling urban thriller that's one part "Rear Window" and three parts "Seven."
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50The movie's atmosphere is moody and intense, bubbling like a caldron. Unfortunately, the broth turns out to be stone soup.
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50There's only one good reason to see The Bone Collector, and her name is Angelina Jolie.
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50Sometimes star power alone can keep you from walking out of a movie, and this is one of those times.
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50A cinematic game that might be called Urban Creep Show, New York-style.
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50It's kind of fun--if you have the stomach for its more grisly passages.
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50Entertaining but never fully engrossing.
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50This mild thriller's consistently dark atmosphere makes the scene-of-the-crime tableaux...transcend exploitation and even suggest a kind of feminist odyssey.
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40Abandon all hope of logic, you who enter here.
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40A piece of exploitive schlock.
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40You may have as much fun tearing it apart in its aftermath as you do watching it, but the fun is still genuine.
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38If you have a strong stomach, a weak sense of disbelief, an active interest in Denzel Washington or Angelina Jolie and a temporarily inactive brain, you may enjoy it awhile.
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31One of our very few consummate movie star actors, Washington can't quite elevate this dismal material as he's been able to do in the past, but he retains his dignity.
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30By the last third, one is sick to death of seeing people tortured, no real catharsis is offered, and stupid is how one feels.
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30So formulaic and predictable that you're bored even when you're scared.