Bone Collector, The

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

Slick entertainment.

TNT RoughCut Matt Kelsey

Both leads perform admirably.

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

A 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.

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

A skeleton-thin thriller wrapped in glamorous production values.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Entertaining but terminally dopey.

Philadelphia Inquirer Gary Thompson

Weaknesses are confirmed in the movie's laughable climax.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

Washington and Jolie earn their stripes here, but more texture would have resulted, I think, in more terror.

Film.com Ernest Hardy

Although 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.

Newsweek Eric S. Arnold

May be formulaic...but many good recipes are.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

Quickly assumes the characteristics of a bad slasher movie.

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

This mild thriller's consistently dark atmosphere makes the scene-of-the-crime tableaux...transcend exploitation and even suggest a kind of feminist odyssey.

San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris

This is neither a psychological thriller nor an erotic one, so any interest in the story is purely the work of its stars.

USA Today Susan Wloszczyna

The ending stinks.

The New York Times Stephen Holden

A cinematic game that might be called Urban Creep Show, New York-style.

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

There's only one good reason to see The Bone Collector, and her name is Angelina Jolie.

Time Richard Schickel

It's kind of fun--if you have the stomach for its more grisly passages.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

A middling urban thriller that's one part "Rear Window" and three parts "Seven."

San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein

Often falls flat.

Film.com Robert Horton

Sometimes star power alone can keep you from walking out of a movie, and this is one of those times.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

The quality of the acting is so much better than the material deserves.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Climaxes in an ending of such sleazy preposterousness that it's almost worth the price of admission alone.

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

Two 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.

Variety Dennis Harvey

Entertaining but never fully engrossing.

Miami Herald Sara Wildberger

The 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.

Portland Oregonian Diana Abu-Jaber

The movie's atmosphere is moody and intense, bubbling like a caldron. Unfortunately, the broth turns out to be stone soup.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

This variation on the "Rear Window" format works best when director Noyce gives free rein to Washington's thoughtful charm.

Slate David Edelstein

A piece of exploitive schlock.

Washington Post Stephen Hunter

You may have as much fun tearing it apart in its aftermath as you do watching it, but the fun is still genuine.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Abandon all hope of logic, you who enter here.

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

If 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.

Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson

One 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.

LA Weekly F. X. Feeney

By the last third, one is sick to death of seeing people tortured, no real catharsis is offered, and stupid is how one feels.

Village Voice Amy Taubin

So formulaic and predictable that you're bored even when you're scared.