Along Came A Spider is far from a good film I found. While it at least strives to be intriguing and engaging many poor plot elements and too many cliches mean you can't really get into it. After a silly opening in which a suspect apparently hasn't noticed the helicopter flying above his car. We next get introduced to a kidnapper with an apparently limitless supply of technology which must cost millions to get hold of, where did all this come from you wonder. We have the usual cliché of the damaged detective, though Morgan Freeman at least ends some weight to the movie through his acting. Some of the dialogue is a lot on the nose too "It's a game....." declares Freeman at one point. "He's like a spider....." Some other bits of the film just feel borrowed from other movies like running from phone box to phone box, overall Dirty Harry is by far the better movie in that it doesn't have this ridiculous twist thrown in which for me completely deflated any interest or believability the film still had by that point. The film doesn't go for huge explosions, or violent gore, or any other cheap tricks, it's also well edited, the music is fine, it's just the story itself which I didn't find all that interesting or realistic or original.
Review of Along Came a Spider
