Black Rain
by Ridley Scott
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Actor: Andy Garcia, Kate Capshaw, Ken Takakura, Michael Douglas, Yusaku MatsudaDirector: Ridley Scott
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 2.35:1
Running Time: 125 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-02-16
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Black Rain
Movie Review: Barefoot Gen grown up.
Summary: 4 Stars
I have yet to find a Ridley Scott film in which he doesn't beat the living snot out of commonly held irrational dislikes (like xenophobia, misogeny, and contempt for cops). This visually striking film takes fear, loathing and contempt for aliens/Philistines to new extremes of irony and complexity that utterly justify the incredibly ominous title. I've given it four stars because the multilayered ironies are only fully revealed through the commentary which is reinforced by the other special features.
His stereotypes spin totally counter to their vector, and the closer I watch his very financially-successful entertainments, there more art there is to see. That's not the way this stuff is supposed to work.
Summary of Black Rain
A guilty pleasure if ever there was one, Black Rain is a ridiculously entertaining thriller by Ridley Scott (Alien), starring Michael Douglas as a tough New York cop who--along with his partner (Andy Garcia)--goes to Japan to deliver a local mobster. When the latter escapes, Douglas's brand of gonzo crime fighting rubs his Japanese hosts the wrong way. Slick, mechanistic, and absurd, the film is all surface action and attitude (not to mention Scott's incredibly busy, trademark art direction); and one can get lost in the sheer indulgence of it. However, if you can buy Douglas as an iconoclastic lawman, you can buy anything else here, including the notion of Kate Capshaw as a blonde escort highly desired by Japanese businessmen. --Tom KeoghCultures clash (and so, occasionally, do clich?s) in this 1989 stylefest from director Ridley Scott. Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia are New York cops who grab a Japanese mobster and take him back to Osaka--only to lose him there. When they're forced to track him down, Douglas's knuckles-and-know-how approach to crime-fighting puts him at odds with his Japanese handlers. Beside eschewing police brutality, their code of honor also induces guilt because Douglas has succumbed to the occasional shifty tendency in the past. Despite some strong action sequences and Scott's trademark look of neon reflected on wet streets, it begins to drag and ends up exactly where you expect it to--with Douglas chin-to-chin with chief bad guy Yusaku Matsuda. No one plays a flawed hero better than Douglas but this one tends to be by the numbers. --Marshall Fine
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