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Over 20 years after his death by a gunshot, Jimmy Bones comes back as a ghost to wreak revenge on those who killed him and to clean up his neighborhood.Over 20 years after his death by a gunshot, Jimmy Bones comes back as a ghost to wreak revenge on those who killed him and to clean up his neighborhood.Over 20 years after his death by a gunshot, Jimmy Bones comes back as a ghost to wreak revenge on those who killed him and to clean up his neighborhood.
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Gangster (Snoop Dogg) who was trying to clean up the streets is killed by his friends back in the 70's. He comes back to life after 20 years to seek revenge on those responsible for his death. Atmospheric thriller with good visuals and a commanding performance by Snoop Dogg, but it is uninvolving, poorly paced, and comes off as a Nightmare on Elm Street clone. Pam Grier is wasted in a supporting role.
Rated R; Sexual Situations, Profanity, Drug Use, and Graphic Violence.
Rated R; Sexual Situations, Profanity, Drug Use, and Graphic Violence.
With a growing trend of rappers starring in their own movies, Snoop Dogg joins the pack with 'Bones'. Snoop plays Jimmy Bones, a 70s hustler, who is betrayed and murdered by some of his closest associates. Since the time of the murder, Jimmy's corpse is buried in the basement of an abandoned house in Bones' now seedy neighborhood. When a group of empty-headed teenagers buy the abandoned house, they unsurprisingly wake up Jimmy's spirit, resulting in Bones going on a bloody rampage for revenge.
What the heck are we to do with a movie like 'Bones'. Are we supposed to take it seriously as a horror movie. Or laugh at its silliness and Snoop's attempt at becoming a real-life 'Doggfather'. Whatever its intentions are, this movie doesn't have the feel of a horror movie. Rather, it feels more like one of Snoop's pot induced fantasies.
Rating: 5/10 or (2 stars)
What the heck are we to do with a movie like 'Bones'. Are we supposed to take it seriously as a horror movie. Or laugh at its silliness and Snoop's attempt at becoming a real-life 'Doggfather'. Whatever its intentions are, this movie doesn't have the feel of a horror movie. Rather, it feels more like one of Snoop's pot induced fantasies.
Rating: 5/10 or (2 stars)
I've read the other comment referring to Snoop Doggs'horror film, Bones....When this first came out it was my favourite horror film but I watched it that many times that it lost its' lustre.
The effects are great and plenty of blood and some gore from the outset. The beginning sets the tone for the rest of the film as it's one of those films that you just NEED to get to the bottom of why it is happening and what actually took place to cause it. It all unfolds at a pace enough to keep your interest as a viewer. This film is still a very watchable and enjoyable film in my opinion, even today.
It was nice to see Snoop in something different and anyone that is a Snoop Fan will enjoy this film all the more.....7 out of 10.
The effects are great and plenty of blood and some gore from the outset. The beginning sets the tone for the rest of the film as it's one of those films that you just NEED to get to the bottom of why it is happening and what actually took place to cause it. It all unfolds at a pace enough to keep your interest as a viewer. This film is still a very watchable and enjoyable film in my opinion, even today.
It was nice to see Snoop in something different and anyone that is a Snoop Fan will enjoy this film all the more.....7 out of 10.
I don't know why people bitch so much about this film. Even though I didn't find it scary (nothing after The Others is anyway), I thought it was great entertaining. Sure the movie is full of plot holes, sometimes the acting is pedestrian, and the special effects can be laughable, but I don't think the makers set out to make something as scary as The Shining. This is supossed to be funny people, after all Snoop Dogg is there. Check it out lightly
Man this film is da Shizzy! Scary as! and da dogg is running wild, man, at the start he even is a dog! Genius! Basically the plot is that some dudes went and whacked Jimmy Bones back in the day but they never bet on him coming back from the dead. Then business starts to pick up! I liked this film cuz it was pretty moral, with Snoop givin gangstas what they deserve but at the same times you could tell he understood that sometimes people make you do bad and it ain't really yo' fault. Pam Grier is back to doin' what she does best after the blip that was Jackie Brown. My only gripe was the gratuitious nudity but other than that 11 out of 10!!! Roll on the sequel.
Did you know
- TriviaThis was the first time where Snoop Dogg and Pam Grier collaborated together on film. However, they first worked together when Grier reprised her titular role in Foxy Brown (1974) in the music video for Snoop Doggy Dogg: Doggy Dogg World (1994). Also featuring Tha Dogg Pound and The Dramatics, it was the third single from Snoop's debut album Doggystyle and won the 1994 MTV Video Music Award for Best Rap Video. Ricky Harris (Eddie Mack) also co-directed the video alongside Dr. Dre and appears in the video as Taa-Dow, the owner of the Carolina West nightclub in Los Angeles where the video is set.
- GoofsIn the jump-rope rhyme it says of Jimmy Bones that "he has a switchblade loose and a diamond on his hand". The only knife Jimmy Bones is shown to carry is a Butterfly Knife, not a switchblade.
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Jimmy Bones: I'm on a high... A supernatural high
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- $16,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $7,316,658
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,823,548
- Oct 28, 2001
- Gross worldwide
- $8,378,853
- Runtime
- 1h 36m(96 min)
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- 2.35 : 1
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