Along Came A Spider (Lee Tamahori, USA, 2001) August 17, 2006
Posted by Daniel Stephens in : 2000s, Drama, Film reviews, Action/Adventure, Thriller/Suspense, Crime , trackbackDir. Lee Tamahori; screenplay by Marc Moss; starring Morgan Freeman, Monica Potter, Michael Wincott
Oh dear! Watching a clearly bored Morgan Freeman reprise his role as James Patterson’s Alex Cross is one thing, but watching him in a clichéd, predictable, so-called thriller, with a support cast of equally bored actors, is ten times worse.
The first film ‘Kiss The Girls’ was average at best, but I was expecting more from this one. It’s so predictable you just want to do what the Futureheads have been telling us lately – Skip To The End. When does Micheal Wincott ever play a good guy? We meet him wearing a disguise but immediately you know to point your finger and say – he did it! Don’t worry I’m not spoiling the film for you – it alludes to who the criminal is early on, it’s what happens then that is supposed to be the mystery. Yet, the plot twist towards the end is so ludicrous it feels like the writer (maybe James Patterson, I wouldn’t know, as I haven’t read this particular Cross novel) knows that he’s written a clichéd story and needs to add some suspense. He appears to do this by simply picking a character at random and saying: well, actually there’s more to it.
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