The bone hunter

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Movie
German title The bone hunter
Original title The Bone Collector
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1999
length 118 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 14
Rod
Director Phillip Noyce
script Jeffery Deaver
Jeremy Iacone
production Martin Bregman
Michael Bregman
music Craig Armstrong
camera Dean Semler
cut William Hoy
occupation
synchronization

The Bone Collector (Original title: The Bone Collector ) is an American thriller about a serial killer by Phillip Noyce from the year 1999 . The film is based on the novel The Assistant (original title: The Bone Collector ) by Jeffery Deaver . The German dubbing was done by the dubbing company PPA Film GmbH Pierre Peters-Arnolds, Munich. The dialogue book and the dialogue direction were created by Pierre Peters-Arnolds.

action

Lincoln Rhyme was once the foremost forensics expert on the New York Homicide Division. But since an accident at work caused by a falling concrete block, which he relived in dreams, he has been paralyzed and can only move his head and left index finger. An elaborate device that he can control with his index finger and language helps him to make life more bearable, but thoughts of suicide torment him. Only when his ex-colleagues around Detective Paulie Sellitto ask him for help with a darkly brutal series of murders is he torn from his lethargy. Impressed by the careful and courageous crime scene security of the young police officer Amelia Donaghy, he takes part in the investigation and receives all technical support, although Captain Howard Cheney, the head of the department, is not enthusiastic. While Amelia does the leg work, Rhyme tries to decipher the mysterious crime scene clues in his high-tech apartment in Manhattan. In addition to bones, pieces of paper are found that have to be put together like a puzzle. As a taxi driver on the way, the killer kidnaps passengers, kills them and always leaves clues at the scene of his next murder, which Rhyme and Donaghy is supposed to induce to rescue the victims, but never works except for a little girl, as some victims are murdered before you get there can read the clues clearly. Research on the instigation of Rhyme into unresolved cases with medically exposed bones reveals that the perpetrator has been after Rhyme for a long time. In the course of events, Cpt. Cheney because of the failures and the lack of reporting to him, finally Rhyme collaborates on the case and has the technology withdrawn from his apartment. But Amelia continues to provide him with information and evidence. At the end, the pieces of paper show an old logo of a publisher, in whose series a book called The Bone Collector appeared around 1900 , which describes all the murders that the current perpetrator is recreating. Amelia finds the book and is able to save the last victim from drowning.

The serial killer turns out to be Rhymes medical technician Richard Thompson, whose real name is Marcus Andrews. He forged incriminating evidence at the time using Rhyme's capable evidence gathering and preservation method, thus imprisoning six innocent people, one of whom hanged himself. Lincoln Rhyme proved him eight years ago in a court case in Syracuse, New York State, as an appraiser of his forgeries, on the basis of which Thompson had been sentenced to six years in prison. His life was ruined by what he blames Rhyme for. With the series of murders and the intentionally laid tracks, Marcus Andrews, alias Richard Thompson, wants to prove Lincoln Rhymes' inability to accuse him of the victims and thus take revenge on him, ending with Rhyme's bestial murder. Thompson stabs Howard Cheney to death in front of Rhyme's apartment as the last victim and immediately kills Nurse Thelma while opening the door. Then he penetrates Rhyme's apartment, switches off a number of devices and the phone. Lincoln uses voice mode to pinch his right hand in the bed frame. He can laboriously free his badly injured hand and lands with Lincoln on the floor. Lincoln succeeds in biting Thompson's throat, causing massive bleeding. While trying to stab Lincoln Rhyme, he is shot at the last second by Amelia Donaghy, who enters the apartment through the still open door.

The film ends with a nice Christmas party with Lincoln Rhymes family members, some of whom have not been seen for a long time, and Amelia Donaghy at Rhymes side.

reception

It premiered on November 5, 1999 in the United States and January 20, 2000 in Germany. It was a commercial success, grossing $ 151.5 million worldwide.

Reviews

Film critics rated the film rather negatively, user ratings from various film portals were mostly positive.

"The serial killer can't be killed, but the state of the subgenre is rather bleak, as this latest example of the genre shows: Vampiristically it feeds on the prototypes and adds universal recipes for success from the handbook for screenwriters to the chunks."

- epd film 2/2000

“Unimaginatively staged, voyeuristic thriller that creates tension with superficial tricks. Only the play of the two main actors stands out from the mediocre production. "

- Lexicon of international film

"But what more can you expect from a thriller that has also adopted its ideas - in a pale third copy - from other works that are vastly superior to it, such as" Seven "or" The Silence of the Lambs "."

- Spiegel Online

Television series

In 2020, a television series based on the books and the film was made titled Lincoln Rhyme: The Bone Hunter . The film stars in this adaptation took Russell Hornsby as Rhyme , the figure instead Donaghy comes here Amelia Sachs before, played by Arielle Kebbel . The series is less dark and brutal than the film and has more crime fiction than thriller elements.

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The bone hunter. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 28, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Age designation for The Bone Hunter . Youth Media Commission (  cut version).
  3. ^ The bone hunter (1999) German synchronous card index . Retrieved December 15, 2017.
  4. ↑ The Bone Hunter. Spiegel Online , January 17, 2000, accessed on June 28, 2017 : "With this film, director Phillip Noyce (" The Hour of the Patriots ") has one more corpse in the basement."