Philip Noyce's serial killer in 1999 "Bone Collector" was not a typical film that Denzel Washington usually chose in the 1990s. Of course, it can be argued that he made a "fallen" (another serial killer) just a year earlier, but in the characteristic of Gregory Hollit, he was a capable and heavy murder detective, calling the footage. It was the type of role that greatly responded to its advantages and heroic presence on the screen. Meanwhile, in the "bone collector", he played an analyst of a quadriplegical forensic analyst with a very limited package of skills. He had no way to rely on his symbolic congestion or physical mannerisms because he simply could not distance his body from his head. Not as if it were a problem for Denzel - we damn how enormous and impressive his range is - but the part provides an unusual challenge that has accepted and utilized his best.

At the time, critics lobbed the film about their deliberate and ad-hoc script that was filled with too weak plots and impossible twists, but they also pointed out that Washington and Angelina Ololi's leading performances were top. Of course, compared to the best of the genre in that period, like the "silence of the lambs" David Fincher's masterpiece, "Seven", Noye's film was not a competition and a clear derivative of those classics. But it is difficult to claim that the film has scratched that itching of many of us then, hungry for more evil and Stunning serial killers pictures Led by some of the best actors in the game. Washington was unequivocally among them and looking at it for several years, he said he was proud and pleased with how the film showed.

Maybe my nostalgia towards dark and awkward late in the 1990s and the early 00 -tens of crime pampered my judgment, but I remember the "bone collector" as a solid atmospheric thriller that Denzel raised with his unthinkable and stupid charisma. Not to mention that Angelina Ololi showed us in a very different light than how we saw her before; She really began to be recognized after playing wonderful and deeply problematic Supermodel Gia Caraghi in the 1998 Biopogue, Gia. Today, after watching numerous painstaking TV -shows, films and documentaries for real crime for serial killers - "Mindhunter", "Zodiac", "Johnon Wayne Gayey: Devil in Masking", etc. - I'm sure the "bone collector" feels like a fall in the ocean. But then, the film hit differently. His box office performance talked about himself: $ 151 million worldwide with a $ 73 million budget. But besides all that, even Denzel talked about it positively Interview in 2004 with the total film. He said:

"I thought it was a very cerebral thriller and a different challenge as an actor. I made films like" Ricochet "and" Pelican Short "in the past, but I think the" bone collector "was much more frightening and more evil than the other two. When I first saw the film, I was scared."

Maybe I'm in a minority, but that's exactly what I felt about the "bone collector" when I first looked at it at a young and striking age. Maybe the time has come to divert.