StraxStrax
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Never seen the movie before tonight. I couldn't stop laughing.
We gotta talk about the car crash in Along Came a Spider
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Never seen the movie before tonight. I couldn't stop laughing.
Poetical Poltergeist
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Never seen the movie before tonight. I couldn't stop laughing.
Fast and furious before the fast and furious.
OmegaK2099
Gettin' It In
Never seen the movie before tonight. I couldn't stop laughing.
I had the EXACT same reaction, I was set on seeing a dark Seven type movie. Then that shyt happened and immediately took me out of the movie. I still haven't been able to get back into it.
StraxStrax
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It's an interesting movie. It has all the elements of a classic, like mix between In the Line of Fire and Seven, but it's too short and needs a rewrite or two.
OmegaK2099
Gettin' It In
I was looking forward to it also because Michael Wincott is one of my favorite actors and he plays the villain. I just couldn't get back into it.
I read a lot of James Patterson's books when I was a kid, and saw Kiss The Girls, the first Alex Cross novel around 1997 on VHS. This was the sequel, and I remember seeing it with my friends in 2001, and this part was bad. The movie itself wasn't as good as Kiss The Girls which was one of the better serial killer/stalker A list thrillers of the 90's. I probably haven't seen it in 15 plus years, it's a competent thriller with a good cast, but a messy, disjointed movie.
OmegaK2099
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Kiss The Girls despite turning into erotic fiction in places was one of the most entertaining books I've ever read. The. movies not as good but I can give it a pass because it turned out to be a good movie also.
A few loopholes I can forgive. But when a plot is riddled with them, crippled by them, made implausible by them, as in "Along Came a Spider," I get distracted. I'm wondering, since Dr. Alex Cross is so brilliant, how come he doesn't notice yawning logical holes in the very fabric of the story he's occupying? Dr. Cross (Morgan Freeman) is a District of Columbia police detective, a famous forensic psychologist whose textbook is quoted by other cops. As the movie opens, he loses his partner in one of those scenes where you're thinking, gee, I didn't know the police had that kind of technology. A woman cop has a small camera concealed on her being, which takes a TV signal of the killer who is driving a car and relays it to Cross in a helicopter, causing us to wonder if there is a way to arrest this guy at less taxpayer expense.
from Ebert's review
from Ebert's review