Release Date:
04/06/2000
Basing the title of a cop thriller on a nursery rhyme should be ironic. However, when the movie in question turns out to be as unchallenging and simple-minded as a nursery rhyme, you have problems. Along Came a Spider tries so hard to be engrossing and nail-biting, but barely manages to be coherent or in any way interesting. The kidnapped 10-year-old girl turns out to be smarter than any other character in the friggin movie!
Trading logic for twists, Spider is the kind of movie where every clue is announced via thunderclap and lightning flashes (we half-expected Tim Curry to show up in a butler uniform: Murder? What do you mean, murder?). Poor Morgan Freeman seems to think hes still in Se7en, essentially playing the same character here. He gets strung along the entire movie only to miraculously solve everything in the last two minutes (dont bother trying to figure out howthe screenwriter obviously didnt). The rest of the cast doesnt get off any easier, with each new character more uninteresting than the last. Spider is a semi-sequel to Kiss the Girls, which was also a Se7en rip-off with a lame twist. Hmmmm someone obviously needs to take a fucking hint.
Trading logic for twists, Spider is the kind of movie where every clue is announced via thunderclap and lightning flashes (we half-expected Tim Curry to show up in a butler uniform: Murder? What do you mean, murder?). Poor Morgan Freeman seems to think hes still in Se7en, essentially playing the same character here. He gets strung along the entire movie only to miraculously solve everything in the last two minutes (dont bother trying to figure out howthe screenwriter obviously didnt). The rest of the cast doesnt get off any easier, with each new character more uninteresting than the last. Spider is a semi-sequel to Kiss the Girls, which was also a Se7en rip-off with a lame twist. Hmmmm someone obviously needs to take a fucking hint.