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Bones (2001)

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Reviews Counted:65

Fresh:14

Rotten:51

Average Rating:3.8/10

Consensus: Slow to start, the sleek looking Bones is more silly than scary.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for violence/gore, language, sexuality and drugs

Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Theatrical Release:Oct 24, 2001 Wide

Box Office: $6,835,153

Synopsis: BONES features rapper Snoop Dogg in his first starring role as the benevolent neighborhood kingpin, Jimmy Bones, who is betrayed and murdered in 1979, and returns to get his horrific revenge twenty... BONES features rapper Snoop Dogg in his first starring role as the benevolent neighborhood kingpin, Jimmy Bones, who is betrayed and murdered in 1979, and returns to get his horrific revenge twenty years later. Patrick (Khalil Kain), the son of one of the witnesses to the murder, Jeremiah (Clifton Powell), decides to turn the creepy abandoned brownstone where Bones once lived into a nightclub. He and his crew move into the building, where a terrifying presence makes itself known. Patrick also meets the beautiful Cinnabar (Bianca Lawson), the daughter of Bones' old flame, Pearl (Pam Grier). But the vengeful spirit released from the old house jeopardizes their newfound love, and their lives. Drenched in stage blood and sprinkled with sex, BONES delivers its gory chills in the style of Italian horror masters like Mario Bava and Dario Argento, with a touch of Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name thrown in. Director Ernest Dickerson proved his skill at horror with the entertaining TALES FROM THE CRYPT: DEMON KNIGHT. Here, he puts a hip-hop spin on a classic horror narrative. The updated motif gives the film a sociopolitical edge, and Snoop's performance harkens back to the blaxploitation films of the 1970s. [More]

Starring: Snoop Dogg, Michael T. Weiss, Pam Grier, Khalil Kain

Starring: Snoop Dogg, Michael T. Weiss, Pam Grier, Khalil Kain, Sean Amsing, Ricky Harris, Bianca Lawson, Merwin Mondesir, Clifton Powell

Director: Ernest R. Dickerson

Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
Screenwriter: Adam Simon, Tim Metcalfe
Producer: Lloyd Segan, Peter Heller, Rupert Harvey
Composer: Elia Cmiral
Studio: New Line Cinema

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Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
11/10/01
Susan Stark
Susan Stark
Detroit News
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A mangy and ungainly movie, a cluttered and uncreepy assembly of stale clichés, telegraphed scares and low-rent effects.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
11/09/01
Geoff Pevere
Geoff Pevere
Toronto Star
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More creepy than scary, but it definitely jangles the nerves.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
11/09/01
Louis B. Hobson
Louis B. Hobson
Jam! Movies

Not only painfully predictable, it is vile.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
11/09/01
Bruce Kirkland
Bruce Kirkland
Jam! Movies

Make no bones about it... this urban frightfest is ridiculously tough to chew on!

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
10/31/01
Frank Ochieng
Frank Ochieng
Filmcritic.com

A grotesquely uneven schlockfest with large doses of bad writing and bad acting amid the delicious moments.

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10/31/01
Andrew O'Hehir
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com
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Splits the difference between horror and social commentary, with pallid returns.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
10/30/01
Ed Park
Ed Park
Village Voice

Bones wanted to be stylish but ended up being a waste of time.

Full Review Source: Talking Pictures (U.S.) | comment Comment
10/29/01
Tony Toscano
Tony Toscano
Talking Pictures (U.S.)
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10/29/01
Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs
Nitrate Online

Made with sufficient skill to produce a few shivers. Just as important, it contains enough self-mocking humor to earn a few laughs.

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10/29/01
Joe Leydon
Joe Leydon
San Francisco Examiner

The story is a creepy urban parable with a fondness for 70s street culture and exploitation movies and a moral underpinning, but it never gels.

Full Review Source: Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus | comment Comment
10/29/01
Bryant Frazer
Bryant Frazer
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus

No one here escapes offensive, negative stereotyping.

Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | comment Comment
10/28/01
Joe Baltake
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee

With his smooth-as-smoke voice and street-strutting panache, Dogg has the makings of a genuinely great actor.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
10/28/01
Marc Savlov
Marc Savlov
Austin Chronicle

There is howler amusement here, though blaxploitative horror spoofed with so dense a pile-on loses force.

Full Review Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | comment Comment
10/26/01
David Elliott
David Elliott
San Diego Union-Tribune

Fails so completely to generate suspense, shock, dramatic momentum or anything else that a kind-hearted viewer may end up rooting for it out of sympathy as it slowly digs its own grave.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
10/26/01
Michael Tunison
Michael Tunison
Boxoffice Magazine

Lack of cohesion blows holes in urban ghost movie.

Full Review Source: Kansas City Star | comment Comment
10/26/01
Robert W. Butler
Robert W. Butler
Kansas City Star

Full of fits and starts, it never really gets going, stalling at every turn without even giving us enough of what we paid to see -- Snoop Dogg and gore.

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10/26/01
Luke Y. Thompson
Luke Y. Thompson
New Times

Too much of Bones feels transplanted from genre staples like Hellraiser.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
10/25/01
Richard Harrington
Richard Harrington
Washington Post

An amusing retro ride.

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10/25/01
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
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