But the Book, It Will Never Close…: Along Came a Spider (2001)

“They say that when I die, the case will die. They say it will be like a book I close. But the book, it will never close…”

So this is a film that I have been wanting to see for a really long time and finally was able to. It is on Amazon Instant Watch currently, so I would totally suggest checking it out if you have that.

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So this film was an amazing thriller. I have to say that I thought I had everything figured out, but in the end I was really thrown by James Patterson.

So the film is based on the book of the same name, and is the first of the Alex Cross detective series.

So the film starts off with Alex Cross, played by the amazing Morgan Freeman, trying to take down a serial rapist and killer. His partner, Tracie, is currently undercover and trying to see if Jim Galloway, the guy they’ve been tailing, is their supposed guy. Everything is running smoothly, until Galloway discovers that Tracie is a cop. He then tries to hurt her, causing her to hit him, the car to spin out of control, and go over the Virginia Falls.

Alex is brokenhearted.

Fast forward a year. Here we have little Megan Rose, a senator’s daughter, who is going to school. It seems to be just an average until…but its not. It is very different as her Charles Lindbergh obsessed computer science teacher, Mr. Soneji, kidnaps her.

The secret service who watches the kids of political parents discover the kidnapping and go looking for her, calling in the FBI.

Meanwhile, Alex Cross is watching news on TV when he receives a phone call. It is the killer!

Yes, just like When a Stranger Calls, the killer is interested in a game of cat and mouse. Soneji wants Alex to get involved in the case so that he can have the fame of not only outsmarting the detective but be widely written about in all the papers. He leaves Megan’s shoe in Alex’s mailbox, prompting him to immediately join the case. There he teams up with Jezzie, Megan’s security detail, to try and track this kidnapper down.

Now I won’t say anymore, because I really do not want to give away the ending, it was so awesome. But I will leave you with reasons why I truly enjoyed this film.

1. Morgan Freeman

Now you’re all probably think, no duh. (Am I right?) And sure it is a no brainer. Morgan Freeman is an absolutely wonderful actor and really connects to you in this role. You feel his pain when he loses his partner, the reluctance to take on a new one, and the drive he has to find this girl, no matter what the cost. He’s lovable, tough, no-nonsense, and the guy you pretty much wish you had backing you up.

2. Megan Rose

Megan is the little girl kidnapped and she’s no push over. This girl is pretty B.A. as she constantly comes up with ways to try and escape to get back to her parents. I love that she is not only super smart, but incredibly persistent stopping at nothing to gain her freedom.

3. Twist Ending

Now the ending is great, it was an amazing twist. It was one of those that when you each the end you see all the little hints that were headed your way and it all makes sense, vis a vis Perfect Stranger. 

To start Horrorfest III from the beginning, go to Even a Man Pure of Heart

For the previous post, go to Who’s Afraid of Cory Wolf?

For more twist endings, go to Happily Ever Aftermath

For more “cat and mouse” type films, go to What’s Your Favorite Scary Movie?

For more films based on a book, go to I Was Here For A Moment. And Then I Was Gone.

For more on kidnapping, go to That Darn Cat!

That Darn Cat

Day 16) A Disney Movie that Makes You Laugh

That Darn Cat (1965)

This film is hilarious!!! It is one of my all-time favorite films!

So the film is about two sisters, Ingrid (Dorothy Provine) and Patricia “Patti” Randall (Hayley Mills), and their siamese cat, D.C or otherwise known as  Darn Cat (Disney using darn in place of d****). Their parents are touring Europe this summer, leaving Ingrid in charge of the house and her teenage sister, Patti. The two leave simple lives, Ingrid works in an office and is to interested in a fellow co-worker, Gregory Benson (Roddy McDowell) who gives her free rides to work. Patti is disatisfied with her relationship with her unromntic boyfriend, Canoe Henderson. 

Their life changes when on their cat’s nightly rounds he discovers a new hangout. D.C. follows a man who turns out to be one of the members of a two-person bank robber team. They have kidnapped a bank teller, and holding her for ransom.

The banker teller, Margret Miller, is forced to cook for the boys, and gets an idea about a possible chance of escape. She takes her watch and starts to scratch H-E-L-P on it, planning to put it around D.C.’s neck. She is only able to do H-E-L before she is interrupted by the robbers, and sends the cat out.

Patti finds the watch and believes it belongs to the missing teller. Her sister says she has an overactive imagination, but  Patti is convinced that she found a link.

Patti then  goes to the FBI, meeting with the very handsome, Agent Zeke Kelso (Dean Jones)

Now this is when the real hilarity begins. So Agent Kelso has to treat D.C. like he would any informent, trying to get “fingerprints”,

describing hair, eyes, etc.; plus he and other agents have to tail D.C, imagine that tailing a cat!!! LOL. Can you imagine that.

The hilarity continues as following a cat does not turn out well, at all. Plus their next door neighbor, Mrs. MacDougall , is a nosey-busybody that is watching the house and tries to call the cops on Agent Kelso. Benson, gets jealous of Agent Kelso and breaks up with Ingrid as he thinks she is sleeping around. As Patti and Ingrid are supposed to be keeping the whole FBI under wraps,  Canoe thinks she is cheating on him as she keeps shutting him out and doesn’t have time for him. 

As Kelso follows D.C., Patti follows him, Canoe and Benson follow them, and  Mrs. MacDougall tries to follow them all. I won’t tell you how it ends, but it is AWESOME!!!!

Go here to watch it

For more on Disney, go to Diamond in the Rough

For more on Cats, go to The Cat’s Meow

For more on Roddy McDowell, go to A Twist on Wrecking Ball