My guess is that the film made money, and so for the principals, was worth the week it took to film, and the ten minutes it took to write. Detective Alex Cross Morgan Freeman ,on sick leave recovering from the lose of his partner, is called back into action when the daughter of Senator Rose Michael Moriarty is kidnapped from her private school. Of course she's going to just disappear and leave evidence to show he killed her. Lets face it, every plot is based on clichés. That's what we're told, at least. Gee, we have never seen this idea before.
Monica Potter is indeed Julia Robert's clone, and that's not good in my eyes. Like Kiss the Girls, Along Came A Spider is based on a novel by James Patterson. Suspense, thrills and a plot that twists and turns. The tameness in here, and Freeman, make this a notch albeit a small one above the average thriller. Not only does he live, but he comes back in number 4, which is one of the best novels in the series. Okay, I'm going to review this one in two manners.
You do get Morgan Freeman and Michael Wincott. Michael Wincott plays the savvy kidnapper. It's a good watch and the cast do well in their roles. Mostly Morgan Freeman just looks a little tired. For a tough modern-day crime story this film, for the most part, was pretty low- key with low profanity and not a lot of gore or overdone action. It is just a generic movie and a pretty decent generic movie at that. The Freeman movie was nice too but I liked the one with Pleshette a little better.
The odds of that happening are millions-to-one but not in the world of films. That was surprising considering the sordid subject matter. The film is aimed at viewers who like crime puzzles and mind games. He tracks them down to a secluded farmhouse, where Flannigan has murdered Devine and is now intent on eliminating Megan Rose. In fairness I should say I enjoyed myself watching it.
His entire plan would be shot to hell because each clue he leaves sets the police up for the next one. But absent any thrills, I guess I'm at a loss. However, the scene with the thermos as to not give anything away was excellent and extremely creative. I liked it so much that I remembered it for many years 30 so that when the 2001 movie with Morgan Freeman was released, I thought it was a remake. When the girl tries to escape from Soneji, I was hoping she would be caught, because I wanted Soneji to lay down more puzzle pieces for Cross. There are several ninety degree twists that play games with our mind.
I enjoyed the movie on a thriller type basis. She looks a little and sounds a lot like Julia Roberts, a comparison that must make her physically ill by now. David Furie, whose nuclear accident propels the entire plot. But basically all of the technical aspects of the film are acceptable damning praise. But everything is smoke and mirrors - in reality Ann is the widow of a technician who had been working alongside Becker on the same project but was killed during a workplace experiment gone wrong!! Morgan Freeman did his usual brilliant job of acting. Alex Cross is so brilliant, how come he doesn't notice yawning logical holes in the very fabric of the story he's occupying? Andrew Blake Virginia Gregg as Dr. You have a taste in your mouth for guns and psychopaths and you've already seen Hannibal, so what do you do? Martin Becker Andrew Prine as Sam Howard Milton Selzer as Dr.
That said i would be lying if said i didn't enjoy it, and i would still recommend it as worthwhile viewing; it will satisfy your thirst for a thriller for a short while at least. Overall then an entertaining but uninspired affair that pushes the right buttons but doesn't aspire to anything beyond the genre. Along Came a Spider is not a bad movie all in all. A couple of plot twists at the end can't save this damaged script. This raises the question of when you last saw a thriller in which the cop or investigator captures the criminal at the end, puts them on trial, and gets their cathartic release watching them get sentenced to life in prison. Richard Anderson has a small role as the prosecuting attorney!! Fortunately, this only occurred in this one scene. Can you be justified in acting on suspicion? There are places in this movie you just can't get to from other places in this movie.
He is solid and professional even if he is underserved by the script. And it is particularly vulnerable to logic, or perhaps it is just poorly edited. In reality, of course, most criminals are motivated either by greed or by strong emotions such as anger, hatred or jealousy rather than by the desire to commit the perfect crime for its own sake; Leopold and Loeb may have been exceptions, but even they were not stupid enough to taunt the police in the manner of some fictional criminals. Nelson was part of the same project that killed her husband. It is not really a sequel, but more a continuation of the adventures of Forensic Psychologist Alex Cross. It is an enjoyable enough mystery that is professionally handled but it lacks imagination and flair. It's a shame as most of the film was great.
No matter how unexpected ultimately the twists make sense in the terms of the logic of the movie. If you want to be critical about it not living up to the book's legend then fine. What was the purpose of the weird Lindbergh website the kidnapper sets up? But I have equally little to recommend it. In both cases the female character has an Irish surname Donaghy in the earlier film. He was the project manager overseeing a radiation experiment that went wrong. Morgan Freeman is, as ever, terrific in this movie which must have looked good as a written script. For instance, what if the detectives missed any of the killer's clues? Soneji tries to leave with Flannigan, but Cross kills him.
Soneji later arrives at Flannigan's home and confronts Cross after disabling Flannigan with a. For once in your life, Hollywood, just use the book as a script. It's a shame to see a marvelous actor like Freedman wasted on trite stuff like this. Call me stupid, that's just fine, but I didn't see the ending coming at all. At the end of the album an internal voice is heard telling 'Spider' that 'We've been locked away here for twenty five years Steven, we couldn't have done all those horrible things' thus revealing Spider as the character Steven from.