Along Came a Spider

The thriller Along Came a Spider offers a reunion with police psychologist Alex Cross, whom Morgan Freeman also played in "Kiss the Girls".

In Along Came a Spider, a senator's daughter, Megan Rose, is abducted from under the noses of Secret Service agents Jezzie Flannigan and Ben Devine. They are responsible for security at the school, which also counts the Russian president's son among its pupils. The kidnapper is the psychopath Gary Soneji, who has been posing as a teacher at the school. Jezzie wants to make amends by taking part in the investigation, and Cross reluctantly agrees to work closely with her. The case is rather tangled, however, for Soneji is, unsurprisingly, more interested in the Russian president's son. But Cross is further from solving the case than he thinks, for suddenly things take an unexpected turn.

The film has a few aces up its sleeve, but compared with "Kiss the Girls" it is less atmospheric, and the plot feels more like the storyline of a mediocre TV crime drama. Watch out for who gets bumped off...