Rent Boneyard (2024)

Confusing & Disappointing Serial Killer Film - Boneyard review by GI

A rather cluttered and confusingly structured police procedural allegedly inspired by a true case. The prominence of Mel Gibson on the film's poster etc is clearly to influence audiences into thinking he's a lead player here but he's actually in a minor role although is given a backstory that seems like filler. The actual story is fairly routine. A number of bodies are discovered buried in to the New Mexico desert all of which turn out to be missing young women many of whom were sex workers. The local police investigation leads to the uncovering of police corruption but fails to nail the killer of the women. Gibson is an FBI profiler brought in to assist. Most of the characters are standard American cop ones drawn from the usual character traits you find in films of this type. Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson is the local police chief who basically has little to do here with the main focus of the narrative being on the lead detective (Brian Van Holt) who has a personal reason for pursuing the case albeit he has tunnel vision over who he suspects. Sadly the story behind this film no doubt is an interesting one but this film doesn't service that story very well and I guarantee you'll be disappointed by the end result if you manage to keep up with the confusion of the editing.