- Cast – Morgan Freeman as Alex Cross, Monica Potter as Jezzie Flannigan, Michael Wincott as Gary Soneji.
- Director – Lee Tamahori
- Writers – James Patterson, Marc Moss
- Budget – $60 million
- Hit/Flop – Hit
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ALONG CAME A SPIDER: Morgan Freeman is Alex Cross, a Washington-based forensic psychologist and profiler. Spider, loosely adapted from James Patterson’s first best selling Cross novel, is more digestible than the grim introductory Cross movie, Kiss the Girls (1997), which tried too hard for horror and serial killer shocks.
As the nursery rhyme title suggests, Spider’s endangered victim is a child, Megan Rose (Mika Boorem), a senator’s daughter snatched from a private school by a cerebral criminal who wants to become famous. Cross, who is grieving over a mistake that cost the life of a partner, is persuaded to team with guilt-ridden Jezzie Flannigan (Monica Potter), the Secret Service agent responsible for guarding Megan.
Nobody’s psyche is explored deeply, and it’s easy for an actor as cool as Freeman. Spider is mostly a chase-and-track-down-the-kidnapper suspense yarn, happily avoiding some lurid temptations. Megan proves to be a formidable captive who refuses to be an easy victim.
Director Lee Tamahori (The Edge) provides several tingling episodes, especially a ransom-drop sequence that takes Cross and Jezzie through the D.C. streets and subways. Some plot twists will stir up the audience, but are not exactly Alfred Hitchcock class either, not to mention Sherlock Holmes or Ellery Queen genius doesn’t come along too often. Genre violence; satisfactory for mature viewers.
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