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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.

Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

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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To point out little flaws in this one would be like looking at a demolished car and complaining that the taillight doesn't work.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
10/25/01
Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle

Pretty standard horror stuff.

Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
10/25/01
Tor Thorsen
Tor Thorsen
Reel.com

Nothing sums up the film better than its parting shot, in which maggots are projectile vomited directly toward the audience.

Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | comment Comment
10/25/01
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

Make no Bones about it, Snoop's latest starring movie role is a real dog.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
10/25/01
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The promotional tagline for Bones fittingly reads, 'Unleash the Dogg.' The filmmakers sure did, and in more ways than one.

Full Review Source: DustinPutman.com | comment Comment
10/24/01
Dustin Putman
Dustin Putman
DustinPutman.com

[A] vile mess.

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
10/24/01
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

The last half-hour falls apart, with a shower of maggots, stage blood, catchphrases and nonsensical plot devices.

Full Review Source: Salt Lake Tribune | comment Comment
10/24/01
Sean Means
Sean Means
Salt Lake Tribune

If grossness gives you the giggles, at least a couple of the movie's effects indeed put a little 'wow' in this cinematic bowwow.

Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
10/24/01
Mike Clark
Mike Clark
USA Today

Although Snoop's fans might enjoy the proceedings, even blood and gore aficionados might be disappointed by the unrealistic looking mayhem that's put on display here.

Full Review Source: Screen It! | comment Comment
10/24/01
Jim Judy
Jim Judy
Screen It!

It probably won't make one hide under the bed, but Bones should more than satisfy horror movie fans, as it employs a believable plot, just-enough spooky elements and a dose of dark humor.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Daily News | comment Comment
10/24/01
Damon C. Williams
Damon C. Williams
Philadelphia Daily News

Only Pam Grier, the veteran of the last golden age of Blacksploitation cinema, acquits herself admirably here.

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
10/24/01
Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel

A silly, boring supernatural thriller that squanders a potentially interesting premise.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
10/24/01
Lou Lumenick
Lou Lumenick
New York Post

A watchable haunt from the 'hood for this Halloween.

Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
10/24/01
Jackie Loohauis
Jackie Loohauis
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Fine trash entertainment.

Full Review Source: IFilm | comment Comment
10/24/01
Dave White
Dave White
IFilm

A garish, grotesque slab of silliness drowned in bloody visual effects overkill with an end result that is more horrible than horrific.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
10/24/01
Michael Rechtshaffen
Michael Rechtshaffen
Hollywood Reporter
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Dickerson stays true to the tradition in the film's last third, which turns seriously stupid, and finally outright comic.

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
10/24/01
Terry Lawson
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press

On whole, the film is an incoherent mess.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
10/24/01
Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

A fright film with a bit of social consciousness, a few good laughs and some nice, formal nods to such baroque Italian horror masters as Dario Argento and Mario Bava, Bones nevertheless turns into a typical modern genre piece.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
10/24/01
Bob Strauss
Bob Strauss
Los Angeles Daily News

Too earthbound to get anywhere near terror.

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10/24/01
Jay Carr
Jay Carr
Boston Globe

Bones is a ghetto fabulous blaxploitation freak show that will surely swish over people's heads.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
10/24/01
Ed Gonzalez
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine
 
 
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