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 Rising Sun (DVD)
 Rising Sun (DVD) ... Snipes ... / DVD released 04 October, 2004 at 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Features of the DVD: PAL, Widescreen / Author Michael Crichton and director Philip Kaufman had a falling-out over the script for Rising Sun, based on Crichton's best-selling novel (which was controversial for its take on the Japanese invasion of American business in the early 1990s). Kaufman ultimately won, doing an above-average job creating a murder-mystery based on the culture clash between Los Angeles cops and Japanese multinational business interests. When a prostitute is murdered at the opening of a new LA headquarters for a Japanese company, detective Wesley Snipes is forced to call upon retired cop (and Japanophile) Sean Connery to help solve the murder. But he runs into obstruction from the Japanese, as well as a high-tech cover-up, while having to deal with anti-Japanese sentiments from people on his own team. Rising Sun is intriguing, if overlong. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.comNewest Review: ... headquarters in Los Angeles of a Japanese company. Investigating the crime is Wesley Snipes. He is assisted by another ... more ... detective, John Connor, who is taken out of retirement for the job. Connor, played by Sean Connery, knows everything there is to know about Japan and this very much helps the case. Despite starring in one of my favourite movies, MO' BETTER BLUES, I've never particularly rated Wesley Snipes very highly, and this film doesn't change my mind on that score. Unfortunately, although this could easily have been countered by Sean Connery, who can act Snipes off the screen when he's trying, Connery just seems to be g...more |
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After JURASSIC PARK, Michael Crichton's writings became popular for a time, and his novel RISING SUN was turned into a movie in 1993. Directed by Philip Kaufman the film is about the investigation into the murder of a prostitute at the headquarters in Los Angeles of a Japanese company. Investigating the crime is Wesley Snipes. He is assisted by another detective, John Connor, who is taken out of retirement for the job. Connor, played by Sean Connery, knows everything there is to know about Japan and this very much helps the case. Despite starring in one of my favourite movies, MO' BETTER BLUES, I've never particularly rated Wesley Snipes ... Read the complete review
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