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Bones (2001)

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Reviews Counted: 63 Fresh: 14  Rotten:49 Average Rating: 3.8/10
 
Consensus: Slow to start, the sleek looking Bones is more silly than scary.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins

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 years later. Patrick (Khalil Kain), the son of one of the witnesses to the murder, Jeremiah... 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]

Genre: Horror/Suspense

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

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

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Feb 9, 2003

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It takes a full hour before anything interesting happens (believe me, I checked)...

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David Nusair
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Interesting characters and witty dialogue are overshadowed by predictable gore and an overblown climax.

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Tyler Hanley
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Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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...this blows supremely and it's not Snoop's fault.

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John Venable
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6/10

A fun, over-the-top, campy horror flick starring the perfectly cast Snoop Dogg.

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02/24/02
JoBlo
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May be pure trash, but it's trash made with the kind of oozy psychedelic zest that powered a movie like A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors.

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Owen Gleiberman
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It's just too bad that every horror movie released these days has a numeral attached to it, or in this case...should have one.

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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.

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Geoff Pevere
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