I thought it would be bad...But? (Along Came a Spider (DVD))

Member Name: itsonlyme

Product:	Along Came a Spider (DVD)
Date:	09/06/01 (8 review reads)
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Advantages: Morgan Freeman

Disadvantages: Morgan Freeman!

In along came a spider we see Morgan Freeman as a sort of psychologically investigator. The story is of his attempts to track down a psycho who has kidnapped a young girl, the daughter of a US Senator before she ends up dead, or worse.

It's that kind of story, really, and thus the only thing that saves it from becoming a gigantic cliché is the fact that there?s an extremely unpredictable sting in the tale. I mean, it's right up there with the 6th Sense. So, overall, it's all a bit boring. But it's good, well-made, quality boring, and therefore watchable. The acting's fairly fantastic all round, with the female lead, (a buffy-lookalike called Monica Potter, who's still trying to redeem herself from her starring role in Patch Adams), being especially worthy of bitten-lip attention.

Anyway, the sprog is lifted from a high-security private school, which is stuffed with secret service agents in order to protect the little darlings of the Great and the Good. And they fail, obviously, because the kidnapper abducts the girlie and sticks her in a boat. Freeman and Potter have to track her down, which they do so via an extremely stupid and ill-defined computer hacking/file/setup thingy scene which makes bugger-all sense and is, basically, really bloody stupid.

But still, overall, it's pretty good --> the direction's excellent, if a bit clunky. The plot moves along with speed and skill, and even when things get a bit complicated, it?s all still good stuff. So it looks like Freeman?s broken the run of bad movie-luck that he?s had since Seven, i.e., they've all been shite. But this, as I say, isn?t all that bad.

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