Directed by:
Lee TamahoriScreenplay:
Marc MossCinematography:
Matthew F. LeonettiComposer:
Jerry GoldsmithCast:
Morgan Freeman, Monica Potter, Michael Wincott, Dylan Baker, Mika Boorem, Anton Yelchin, Jay O. Sanders, Kim Hawthorne, Billy Burke, Michael Moriarty (more)VOD (1)
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Morgan Freeman returns to the role of Detective Alex Cross in this follow-up to the 1997 hit Kiss the Girls. This time Cross is investigating the kidnapping of a senator's daughter from an exclusive school in Washington DC. Assisted by secret-service agent Jezzie Flannigan (Monica Potter), he works out that the kidnapper's real target was another pupil at the same school, the son of the Russian president. Then, after narrowly averting a second attempt to grab the boy, Cross begins to wonder if there isn't somebody else involved, somebody who is more in control of events than the kidnapper himself. (Paramount Pictures AU)
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Ignoring the basic rules of thriller plots, Along Came a Spider routine and unoriginal crime thriller in which the creators tried to cook up a full-length feature from the ingredients of a 40-minute episode of a TV detective series. For the first two-thirds, we do not know what the kidnapper intends to do and we spend the whole time watching only his unoriginal games with the police. His actions do not have enough ties to the main character, so Freeman’s detective seems like only a necessary mirror image of the opposite side of the law. And when the film gains some momentum in the last third, it comes with an unbelievable conclusion that would serve as the build-up to a true climax in another thriller, but that’s where Along Came a Spider just comes to a stop.
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Average, average, average. Morgan Freeman is the only one of the actors worth noticing here, and if some scenes have anything like a rush, it's because of Jerry Goldsmith's music. But just so I’m not being completely negative, I liked the first half hour a lot. However, after that it was like I started watching a completely different movie with increasingly bizarre situations and a not very interesting denouement.
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