The Bone Collector

The Bone Collector By Phillip Noyce

这是一部很“老”（旧）的戏了，是在1999年拍的。这部戏我是几年前看的，所以还很影响深刻，大家来看一看吧！


Synopsis

An ex-forensics expert who was injured in an accident, and now is paralyzed, 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 extraordinary 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.

After piecing together the message the killer was sending using the scraps of paper, Amelia and Rhyme are led to an old book of short stories, which in turn leads them to the killer's next victims, a grandfather and granddaughter tied to a pier as the tide rises. The girl is rescued, but her grandfather dies. At the scene, Amelia finds another bone, an old police badge, and an old subway map. These clues, and an earlier clue left by the killer at the scene of Mrs Rubin's death (asbestos) lead Amelia to an abandoned subway station, in which Amelia sees some numbers which have been tampered with to spell out Rhyme's police badge number. Amelia then figures out that the bone collector is after Rhyme.

The bone collector arrives at Rhyme's house, and after killing Rhyme's nurse Thelma (Queen Latifah) and Captain Howard Cheney (Michael Rooker) it is revealed that he is the medical technician who cares for Rhyme's medical equipment. The technician, Richard Thompson (Leland Orser), is an ex-forensic cop who wants revenge because in the past, Rhyme's testimony helped convict the killer of planting false evidence at crime scenes. The result is that Richard was brutalized in prison and his life ruined. Despite the helpless state he is in, Rhyme manages to jam Richard's hand by flapping his bed horizontal, and in struggle to free himself, Richard pulls Rhyme with him and they both collapse to the floor. Rhyme then manages to bite Richard in the neck, causing massive bleeding (in fact, in the novel, Rhyme kills him by severing his spinal cord). Richard once again manages to free himself, grabbing a large knife and about to end Rhyme's life, Amelia suddenly arrives at the apartment with a gun, killing him before he has a chance to deliver the fatal stab.

The film ends at a Christmas celebration at Rhyme's apartment. Rhyme, having given up his plans to end his life by suicide, faces his sister and niece coming to visit him along with Amelia, Dr. Barry Lehman (John Benjamin Hickey), Kenny Solomon (Mike McGlone), Paulie Sellitto (Ed O'Neill) and his family, Eddie Ortiz (Luis Guzman) and his mother, and Lincoln's new nurse.

(Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bone_Collector)

Blues 的评语：

我认为这部戏还不错，剧情很紧凑，很珍惜戏里的每一分每一秒。嗯。。。我的意思是这部戏里的每一分每一秒都试图在表达着一个讯息，而不是像一些戏那样，很拖、又找不到重点。在这戏里，Jolie（饰Amelia）在表达自己的感情、情绪方面会比在《Salt》里来得多。在戏里，她会表现出她脆弱的一面，而在《Salt》似乎没那个时间给她去停下来休息。它的剧情还蛮吸引人的，会让人一直想要看下去，而Washington（饰Rhyme）的聪明睿智也让人忍不住赞赏。Washington演他突然病发的那一幕我也觉得很不错，而且蛮有趣的（他过后又示范给Amelia看他刚才病发的样子）。不过，最让人心惊的是Washington一直以来的medical technician竟然就是那个bone collector，这样一来，还真是让人防不胜防。整体来说，我认为还不错。

我会给它三粒半的星级吧！可以拿到Medal 4。