Seen in this way, the badness of Bones strikes a blow for the civil rights movement--at least in the same way as Good Times and What's Happenin' did in the late-'70s
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
Reviews for Bones
A gruesome, gloppy, goofy but perversely amusing shlockfest that will probably appeal to young audiences looking for a Halloween date flick.
In exalting the very worst of humanity, Bones displays a special glee and an unusual density of scary imagery.
Spends so much time trying to impress us with its roaming camera and wispy, digitalized specters that it forgets to be even a teensy bit scary.
The one thing that the movie kills is time. It performs one miracle along the way by making an hour and a half turn into what must have been at least four.
For whatever reason, cleverness of any kind is dispensed with about halfway through Bones, and the film descends into standard-issue schlock 'n gore that has no rationale beyond easily induced nausea.
Its transitions often are sloppy and crude. But it brandishes its excesses like a loud, retro suit.
As a horror film, Bones is a half-hearted bust, not likely to really frighten anyone over age 12. It works better if watched tongue in cheek as a supernatural pot boiler.
Slow to start, this Snoop Dogg vehicle gets revved up as soon as it gets gross, funny and stupid. Actually, it's pretty stupid from the start.
Before its last-reel nosedive into bullpucky about a parallel world of the dead..."Bones" is gutsy, stylish and inventive.
Bones might have been fun if it pumped up the camp a bit, but the movie takes itself too seriously to succeed on that front.
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October 22, 2001:
For Snoop Dogg, this sounds like the sort of retro-funk role he was born to play. ![]()
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