Along Came a Spider

April. 06,2001      R
Rating:
6.4
Trailer Synopsis Cast

After the harrowing death of his partner, detective and best-selling author Alex Cross has retreated to the peace of retirement. But when a brilliant criminal kidnaps a senator's young daughter, Alex is lured back into action. Teamed with the Secret Service agent assigned to protect the missing girl, Alex follows a serpentine trail of clues that leads him to a stunning discovery - the kidnapper wants more than just ransom.

Morgan Freeman as  Alex Cross
Monica Potter as  Jezzie Flannigan
Michael Wincott as  Gary Soneji
Dylan Baker as  Ollie McArthur
Mika Boorem as  Megan Rose
Anton Yelchin as  Dimitri Starodubov
Kim Hawthorne as  Agent Hickey
Jay O. Sanders as  Kyle Craig
Billy Burke as  Ben Devine
Michael Moriarty as  Senator Hank Rose

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Reviews

ThiefHott
2001/04/06

Too much of everything

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AniInterview
2001/04/07

Sorry, this movie sucks

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Brenda
2001/04/08

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

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Francene Odetta
2001/04/09

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

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craig-hopton
2001/04/10

This is a classic detective story of a chase between grizzled police officer (Morgan Freeman) and intelligent, ruthless villain (Michael Wincott), who has kidnapped a politician's daughter.There is a good dose of double-crossing and plot twists involved and Morgan Freeman puts in an excellent performance as usual.Unfortunately the same can't be said of his costar, Monica Potter, who plays a secret service agent and is a terribly wooden actor. This is a shame because the movie centres on the relationship between Freeman and Potter's characters and as a result fails to convince.This could have been a good movie with better actors but in the end it's just OK. There's enough plot interest to keep things going and it's easy to watch, but don't expect to encounter any memorable characters here.

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videorama-759-859391
2001/04/11

We have a new crime fighting character in the second of the Jay Patterson books transferred to film- Alex Cross, and it comes off better second time around. This is a more more exciting or livelier film, opening with a thrilling start, which shows Alex Cross's reasons for retiring. He's called back in on a special case, involving the kidnapping of a congressman's little daughter (a real smart cookie) at a collegiate school by a nutter (a fantastic Michael Wincott who has a brilliant facade one might say at the start) who really just wants notoriety than money, but there's a bigger picture here. Yeah, I did have issues with the unsatisfying motive of Wincott's, but there's other qualities in this film that make up for it, so all can be forgiven. Assisting Freeman is a young female agent (Monica Potter-No, it's not Julia Roberts) bed sitting the daughter at school, who fails in his task in protecting her, and feels much obliged to help. The twist in this film is a killer, one of the best, I've ever witnessed, the film's title baring a classic connotation to this aspect. There's much more activity in this film, than the prior, and it's more action paced. This is definitely for fans of Freeman's or as a bonus, for fans of Kiss The Girls.

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Rickting
2001/04/12

I read the book this is based on shortly before watching this and thoroughly enjoyed it so I was interested to see the film. Like the book, this is about detective Alex Cross investigating a child abduction. As much as I love Morgan Freeman he's not my choice for Alex Cross and he's miscast in this OK but totally average thriller. Looking at the film from an objective point of view, this is an OK film technically but when compared to the book, it lacks the depth, twists and thrills which made the book such a non stop nightmare. Morgan Freeman is less interesting than usual and miscast and the film is in general just forgettable. To be fair, you can't really expect much from the person who did Die Another Day and if you haven't read the book you'll likely find this watchable and moderately entertaining. It's got plenty of tense moments and is more patient and mature than some films of its kind. The visuals are decent as is the script (despite a multitude of plot holes) and the film never becomes unwatchable.The main problem is that it's so generic and wasteful of the source material. It goes down the road into cliché town with great enthusiasm and never really hits a peak. It can be dull and it has quite a few implausible situations. The revelation of Jessie Flanagan as the antagonist made sense in the book, but it doesn't here. The film is also derivative of better things and doesn't add anything whatsoever to the detective genre. There is apparently another Morgan Freeman film, which adapts the slightly inferior but still good sequel Kiss The Girls. That is apparently even more unfaithful so I don't plan to watch it. How bearable you find the film pretty much depends on whether or not you've read the book. It lacks charisma or soul, but makes up for it since it has a certain sense of dread, tension and realism. An OK movie. Nothing more. Nothing less.5/10

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Minahzur Rahman
2001/04/13

"Along came a spider" was a good thriller film. It was certainly much better than the disappointing "Kiss the Girls" film – a film which was pretty predictable, but what makes "Along came a spider" stand-out are its twists and turns. The film is some mystery – no doubt, and is certainly worth watching for movie lovers.The story is about a forensic psychologist named Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman) who retires after a disastrous sting operation that resulted in the death of his partner. He immediately retires after that tragedy, but later, he is pretty much drawn back to the police force again after a congressman daughter named Megan Ross (Mika Boorem) is kidnapped at school by a 'teacher'. This kidnapper then drags Alex (Morgan) into this by placing the shoe of the girl in his mailbox. Then, Alex (Morgan) along with Jezzie Flannigan (Monica Potter) presumably Alex's (Morgan) new partner must find out where Megan Rose (Mika) is; who kidnapped her? WHY?Like I've said, it's a good film with lots of twist and turns and that was one of the major reasons I enjoyed this film. This film made me jump off my couch with one of its twists. The film no doubt gets you intrigued: it is a film certainly worth watching. Morgan Freeman role as Alex Cross was simply brilliant in this movie: I don't think any other actor was capable of this performance.I give this thriller of a film a deserved 8, but only JUST. It's a film worth watching for sure.

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