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I've Got a Bone to Pick
Bone Collector Breaks Mystery Rules

Two things bother me about crime movies: figuring out the killer too easily, and not being able to figure out the killer at all. Each is a result of poor writing. Either the story is not complex enough to fool the average reader, or the writer cheats and pulls the killer's identity out of left field. In the case of The Bone Collector, the investigation was doomed from the start.

I grew up on a steady diet of television detective shows. From "Barnaby Jones" to "The Rockford Files," I watched them all. One of my favorites was "Quincy M.E." The idea of solving crimes based on forensic evidence fascinated me. Naturally, The Bone Collector interested me from the beginning.

The central character of the film is Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington), a disabled ex-cop, a forensic scientist now paralyzed from the neck down. Years after his accident, Rhyme is approached by Detective Paulie Sellitto (Ed O'Neill) to help in the......

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