The film grafts a fiercely modernist feel onto characters and themes right out of a 1940s film noir--an impressive achievement that more than makes up for a ponderous storyline.
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04/09/08
Rising Sun (1993)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:12
Rotten:22
Average Rating:5.1/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 9 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: A Los Angeles special agent (Snipes) must team up with an expert on Japanese culture (Connery) to investigate the murder of a call-girl in the boardroom of a Japanese corporation. The case turns... [More]
Starring: Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, Mako
Director: Philip Kaufman
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Reviews for Rising Sun
aufman's heavy-handedness and a half-baked script with unfocused performances to match render this unentertaining, vacuous nonsense.
04/09/08
What should have been a tense political thrilling blockbuster, ends up a wasted effort with a limp storyline that once again fails to give the book justice.
04/09/08
A typical over-blown Hollywood production.
01/01/00
No review available.
01/23/04
Where the movie really stumbles is with co-writer/director Philip Kaufman's attempts to make it a conventional mystery-thriller. Kaufman simply doesn't have the slightest notion of how to make a conventional film of any kind.
01/01/00
Wildly improbable (read: typical Crichton) tale about a murder in a Japanese office building.
01/01/00
An intriguing, sensual whodunit that would have been even better had it not succumb to political correctness and changed the identity of the killer from Crichton's novel.
03/03/06
As the plot grows more intricate, strangely the tension dissipates, until finally the movie just seems to run out of breath.
10/18/08
Top CriticA slick yet pedestrian thriller.
01/01/00
A thoroughly gratifying prestige thriller, thanks to riveting suspense and two brilliant stars.
01/01/00
Top CriticKaufman's film is flawd but not as bad as some critics claim, though charges of racism made this adaptation controversial even before it was actually seen.
01/02/09
An intelligent and sophisticated screen adaptation of Michael Crichton's bestselling novel
07/12/03
Kaufman's PC adaptation falls awkwardly between the conventions of the Hollywood conspiracy thriller and something intended as more artily significant.
06/24/06
No review available.
01/06/04
Connery is heaven, and so is the movie.
01/01/00
Top CriticThere are a few too many plot holes and logical errors. Rising Sun may be solidly-paced, but not all aspects of the production are as successful.
01/01/00
Top CriticNo review available.
08/15/02
I found it pretty entertaining, as well as provocative in some of its comments about contemporary life.
04/09/08
Top CriticA 1980s style film adaptation of a Michael Crichton novel.
12/23/04
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