Set Comprises Kiss the Girls (1997): North Carolina police detective Dr. Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman) tracks an elusive psychopath whose modus operandi is not necessarily killing the young women he abducts but collecting them as trophies. Unfortunately his quarry includes the detective's own law-student niece so his race against time with the help of a no-nonsense medical intern Dr. Kate McTiernan (Ashley Judd) who escaped the collection is all the more desperate. Based on the series of novels by James Patterson. Along Came a Spider (2001): A congressman's daughter... under Secret Service protection is kidnapped from a private school by an insider who calls Det. Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman) drawing him into the case even though he's recovering from the loss of his partner... The Sum of All Fears: When the president of Russia suddenly dies and is succeeded by a man about whom little is known tension increases as old fears ignite new paranoia. Director of Central Intelligence Bill Cabot (Morgan Freeman) recruits a young analyst from the Russia desk Jack Ryan (Ben Affleck) to supply insight and advice. A group of terrorists is trying to provoke a war between the two nations by manufacturing and escalating the conflict. When they successfully detonate a second bomb outside Baltimore during the Super Bowl the world is pushed inexorably towards war... unless Ryan can supply the needed proof to stem the tide of disaster in time. [show more]
A fifty year veteran of the acting business, Morgan Freeman only rose to prominence in the 1990s with standout performances in 'Driving Miss Daisy', 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves', 'The Shawshank Redemption' and 'Se7en'. This set features Freeman's recurring roles as Detective Alex Cross in 'Kiss The Girls' and 'Along Came A spider', and caps things off with Tom Clancy's political potboiler 'The Sum Of All Fears'.
'Kiss The Girls': Following on from 'Seven', Morgan Freeman plays a similar role in 'Kiss The Girls'; a well paced and entertaining police procedural. Freeman's first film as detective Alex Cross, sees him on the case of the Casanova killer; an elusive maniac who is in the habit of kidnapping young women. Things get personal when his niece is among the abducted. Freeman joins forces with Ashley Judd, who plays a doctor and traumatized survivor who managed to escape Casanova's clutches. Standard mid-to-late 90s thriller, well acted and worth a look.
'Along Came A Spider': Freeman manages to defy the odds with a surprisingly competent sequel, reprising the role of detective Alex Cross. This time, author James Patterson's laconic gumshoe is out to expose a political conspiracy that leads directly to the White House: Cross is paired with sexy Secret Service agent Monica Potter, and is drawn into a sinister game of cat-and-mouse with a tech-savvy kidnapper. Freeman exudes sobriety and cool whilst Monica Potter, an underrated actress, deserves some credit for her memorable portrayal of an otherwise clichéd character. Like its predecessor, 'Along Came a Spider' is a fair-to-decent crime thriller, not great but not bad either.
'The Sum Of All Fears': Tom Clancy has always been a somewhat pompous and dishonest character. His 'Military Industrial Complex' themed novels are fetishistic, thinly veiled propaganda efforts praising U.S. foreign policy, militarism and feeding Uncle Sam's delusions of grandeur like a high class hooker turning tricks in a strip joint. 'The Sum of All Fears' isn't all that different, in fact, it even repeats thematic elements from Clancy's own 'Red Strom Rising' and reboots the Jack Ryan story (Jack Ryan being the character played by Harrison Ford in 'Patriot Games' and 'Clear And Present Danger') with Ben Affleck.
Freeman and Affleck make for an affable double act and the film, which contains a few good twists here and there; is watchable, reasonably entertaining fare.
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Three popular thriller movies starring Morgan Freeman. In 'Kiss the Girls' (1997), when his niece disappears, forensic psychologist Alex Cross (Freeman) travels to Washington, where he learns from detective Nick Ruskin (Cary Elwes) that she is one of eight women to have been kidnapped by a mystery man who calls himself 'Casanova'. When one of the women, Dr Kate McTiernan (Ashley Judd), manages to escape from Casanova's lair, her attempts to help Cross track him down are hindered by the fact that she has been injected with an amnesia-inducing drug. In 'Along Came a Spider' (2000), Freeman reprises his role as Detective Alex Cross in the follow-up to 'Kiss the Girls'. This time Cross is investigating the kidnapping of a senator's daughter from an exclusive school in Washington DC. Assisted by secret-service agent Jezzie Flannigan (Monica Potter), he works out that the kidnapper's real target was another pupil at the same school, the son of the Russian president. Then, after narrowly averting a second attempt to grab the boy, Cross begins to wonder if there isn't somebody else involved, somebody who is more in control of events than the kidnapper himself. Finally, in 'The Sum of All Fears' (2002), America's security community is on edge. The Russian premier has just died and been replaced by President Zorkin (Richard Marner), a man whose international ambitions are something of an unknown quantity. Fortunately, seasoned CIA agent Jack Ryan (Ben Affleck) is on hand to profile the man in the hot seat. But then the USA's worst fear comes true when Baltimore is struck by a nuclear device during a football game. Ryan's boss Cabot (Freeman) is convinced this isn't really a Russian strike and dispatches Ryan to uncover the truth before the USA and Russian Federation slide into World War III. A shadowy terrorist group might just hold the key.
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