Yes, it's thrilling, suspenseful and at times even bone-chilling. One woman's scream becomes a crying siren of emergency vehicles rushing to save her from being boiled alive. That's an effective scene change. In fact, "The Bone Collector" is a pretty good movie right up to the end where it makes a clean break into not being a very good movie -- fractured, as it were, in several places.

The on and off Denzel, is more on in this movie than off while Jolie is simply radiant. Denzel plays a paralyzed homicide investigator for whom the rookie cop Jolie becomes the eyes, ears and body. There's a killer loose, he's leaving all kinds of TV movie clues for Denzel to decode. The production, direction and acting work as a team to keep this film alive and kicking; unfortunately the poorly scripted climax overwhelms them all with stale anti-drama and ultimately leaves the picture itself somewhat hog-tied and whimpering.