The 90s were a decade golden age of the police genre in its most gruesome form. The silence of the lambs (1991) and Seven (1995) were the two success stories that promoted the incessant production of thrillers that were often clones of each other, fighting to outdo each other in the perversion of their killers and the morbid fetishism of their killings.
Although this streak of taciturn detectives and creative psychopaths It was very limited to its time, with films like Copycat (nineteen ninety five), The bone Collector (1999) or Resurrection (1999) taking advantage of the fame of its references to make money at the box office, the inscrutable paths of streaming and algorithmic whims have led to one of the most representative titles of this exploitation trend don’t stop climbing positions most watched on Netflix.
Is about The lover collector (1997), film in which Morgan Freeman, fresh out of Seven, He once again gets into the shoes of a veteran detective faced with a Machiavellian psychopathic murderer. The actor plays Alex Cross FBI agent, protagonist of a copious saga of novels by the American writer James Patterson.
‘The Lovers Collector’ on Netflix
This film adapts his second literary appearance, published in 1995, while the first would be brought to the big screen a few years later in The hour of the spider (Lee Tamahori, 2001), again with Freeman in the role of Cross but in a movie even worse than The lover collector.
Because it’s not that the film directed by Gary Fleder (who came from a very well-made debut in neo-noir: the much better Things to do in Denver when you’re dead, 1995) is very remarkable, let’s say. The development is quite a bit more watery than Morgan Freeman’s magnetism can bridge, making it articulate as a thriller without tension or roughness no matter how much bloodthirsty morbidity it tries to awaken.
The comparison with weighs heavily seven for Freeman’s role and, above all, with The silence of the lambs by the plot approach: the protagonist agent investigates the kidnappings of several young girls (including his niece) in a town in North Carolina, and has the help of a victim who managed to escape and survive, whom he plays Ashley Judd.
Although the wickerwork of The lover collector They are downright telefilm-like (or perhaps that’s exactly why), has made extraordinary fortune since its incorporation into the Netflix catalog last week. It has not stopped climbing positions in the top of the most viewed of the streaming platform, ranking for a few days now as the third most viewed film in Spain.
New surge in fame for a film that was justifiably quite forgotten, Although during its run in Spanish cinemas it was seen by some 777,000 spectators and grossed an estimated $60.5 million worldwide (against a budget of 27 million). Perhaps it is the famous thirst for mid-range productions without great displays that afflicts today’s Hollywood, but to which the public continues to respond more than a quarter of a century later.
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