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| Year: | 2001 |
| Country of origin: | USA / Germany / Canada |
| Director: | Lee Tamahori |
| Genre: | Serial killer thriller |
| Starring: | Morgan Freeman, Monica Potter, Michael Wincott |
| Rating: | 4/5 |
| IMDB link: | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164334/ |
| Tagline: | The game is far from over. |
| Favourite line: | "To be brutally honest, I think you have a morbid desire to burn in hell." |
There was a time, shortly after the release of Se7en, that Morgan Freeman seemed doomed to an acting life playing detectives on the trial of serial killers.
And thank the Christ's for that, I thought, as he happens to be particularly good at it.
Here we see Morgan playing Alex Cross, literary detective par excellence, straight off the pages of James Patterson, a man whose books epitomise the phrase "on speed."
'Something, something, something.....on speed, the new novel by James Patterson.'
Having chapter lengths shorter than your average anal hair, his tomes are snappy affairs, so it is something of a surprise that this takes more of a cerebral approach, gathering momentum gradually - after a kick ass opening sequence - with no sign of the adrenaline fuelled prose that spawned it.
That's not a criticism, incidentally, as this is well structured, well developed and thoughtful serial killer thriller fodder, just don't expect the lightning pace.
That's all I'm saying.
I'm not sniping.
Fuck's sake.
Morgan is excellent in the lead role, and all are more than capable, with a particularly deviant turn by Michael Wincott as evil child kidnapper Gary Soneji.
Whilst hardly likely to turn anyone's life upside down, this is a competent enough thriller nonetheless.
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