The Bone Collector (1999) *

Directed by Philip Noyce. With Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie and Queen Latifah. A poor-man's Seven, with a similar plot premise (serial killer playing cat-and-mouse games with cops by leaving obscure clues on crime scenes), but none of the earlier film's gritty imagery and shocking plot twists. Washington plays a paraplegic police expert, who asks rookie cop Jolie to be his arms, legs, eyes and ears, as they investigate a series of grisly murders. Routine and unmemorable.