|
Actors: Morgan Freeman, Monica Potter, Michael Wincott, Billy Burke
|
|
| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Along Came a Spider |
|---|
A senator's daughter is kidnapped so Alex Cross goes to investigate. He teams up with a Secret Service agent and together they hunt down the kidnapper. What Alex soon realizes is that nothing is as it seems.
--Jack Bauer, Resident Scholar
|
i thought the movie was also good and that Morgan Freeman did an excellent job, along with Monica Potter.
--Tammy Jones, Resident Scholar
|
this movie deals with lots of suspense and has some bad language, but what i liked about this movie is that it was a mystery also. that the police and dr.alex cross had to figure out.
--Kammy Jones, Resident Scholar
|
Morgan Freeman is back as Alex Cross who is forced into an investigation after the daughter of a United States Senator is kidnapped.
--Brian Oliver, Resident Scholar
|
| Analysis of Along Came a Spider |
|---|
Our unique search engine provides a wealth of detail about
books by breaking them down into many different literary
elements, all of which are searchable (click here). |
Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 70%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Legal/Political Thriller?
Yes
Political Plotlets:
- political kidnapping
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
- Female
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
- brunette (Black)
Body type
- average (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
Body type
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- sewers/subways
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- in awe
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- land battles
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- poisoning
- dropped from large heights
- frying (electrocuted)
- run over
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
|
| Most similar reviews by Gordonator ranking |
|---|
| No Witness
starring Steve Barnes, Jeff Fahey, Corey Feldman, Marisa Petroro
|
| The Pelican Brief
starring Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard, John Heard, William Atherton, John Lithgow, Stanley Tucci
|
| Q & A
starring Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton, Armand Assante, Patrick O'Neal, Luis Guzmán,Charles Dutton
|
| Blind Horizon
starring Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Neve Campbell, Amy Smart, Faye Dunaway, Noble Willingham
|
| True Believer
starring James Woods, Robert Downey Jr., Margaret Colin, Kurtwood Smith, Luis Guzmán, Yuji Okumoto
|
|
Note: the views expressed here are only those of the reviewer(s). | |
|
