I think Along Came a Spider is the worst major studio release I've seen.
Kiss the Girls was shitty, too, with its killer played by Cary Elwes, in the most "who cares" casting I can think of.
Spider kicks off with some irrelevant plot where a guy drives his convertible off the Hoover Dam or something because he's too busy trying to get a blowjob. It's like a Zucker parody. And yeah, Alex Cross' partner falls off the dam and that’s supposed to haunt him...except it never quite comes up again?
The '90s were a rough time for thrillers, where the "twist" was
ALWAYS that the bad guy is a fellow cop.

And they did half the hero’s job by just showing up at the end and revealing their plans for no reason. And Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman somehow starred in most of these?
We know Freeman can do better (Se7en) so let’s just blame Alex Cross.
For instance, I've also seen The Bone Collector, which has a Rear Window-type plot where Denzel plays a paraplegic giving orders through a headset, and it had some tense moments, even though it suffered from the same cheesy pitfalls as most of those flicks. Alex Cross is just terminally dull, I don’t think it would’ve mattered who played him.