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Along Came a Spider
Release
Date: May 4th 2001
Distributor: UIP
Certificate: 15
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Monica Potter,
Michael Wincott, Dylan Baker, Mika Boorem
Director: Lee
Tamahori
Running Time:
103 mins
He is drawn out only when a message from a child kidnapper brings him onto a case which is out of his jurisdiction, but which he may be the only person able to solve.
When Gary Soneji
(Michael Wincott - 'Alien: Resurrection', 'The Crow'), a computer studies
teacher at an expensive private school in Washington, plans an elaborate
kidnapping, his target seems to be Megan Rose (Mika Borem - 'The Patriot',
'Mighty Joe Young'), the daughter of a local Senator. With Megan trapped
in a computer trolley and one suspicious teacher already dead, Soneji
makes good his escape from right under the noses of Secret Service agents,
Jezzie Flannigan (Monica Potter - 'Head Over Heels', 'Con-Air') and Michael
Devine (Billy Burke - 'After Image', 'The Independent').
Although Alex Cross is not involved in the federal case, when he receives
a phone call and finds one of Megan's boots in his mailbox, he is quickly
brought onto the team, and partnered with the initially unwilling, and
disgraced, Flannigan.
Searching the school for clues, Cross notices a missing portrait, which,
when compared with a virtual tour of the classroom on the internet, turns
out to have been of Charles Lindburgh, the aviation pioneer whose baby
was kidnapped in the 1930's. Using a weblink to find Soneji's home the
police move in, only to find it abandoned, but showing all of his preparation
for the past three years…
And when the kidnapper demands a $12,000,000 ransom, which Cross hadn't expected at all, he begins to fear that Soneji is not the only enemy, and that someone else may be behind the disappearance…
Based on the novel by James Patterson, 'Along Came A Spider' is a follow up to the 1997 thriller 'Kiss The Girls'. It is a solid piece of Hollywood storytelling, with a cool twist at the end, which had me fooled, and a story in which the Cross character must use all of his skills to save a small child from a would-be criminal mastermind.
Monica Potter is also on good form as the disgraced Secret Service agent trying to regain her standing with her colleagues after Soneji escaped from her so simply.
But Michael Wincott has very difficult role here at times clinically disposing of people who get in his way, but also trying to be reassuring to his captive who he doesn't seem to want to hurt.
Check this movie out , especially if you're a fan of our homegrown police profiler, Robbie Coltrane as 'Cracker'…