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
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
A thoroughly gratifying prestige thriller, thanks to riveting suspense and two brilliant stars.
01/01/00
Top CriticAn intelligent and sophisticated screen adaptation of Michael Crichton's bestselling novel
07/12/03
No review available.
01/06/04
Connery is heaven, and so is the movie.
01/01/00
Top CriticI found it pretty entertaining, as well as provocative in some of its comments about contemporary life.
04/09/08
Top CriticNo review available.
06/11/03
The film works because of the world it creates, aided by the cinematography of Michael Chapman and the set design of frequent Coppola collaborator Dean Tavoularis.
01/01/00
The flaws don't cripple what is a fiercely funny, exciting and provocative detective story about the crimes of corporate culture -- crimes that transcend race and geography.
05/12/01
Top CriticNo review available.
11/19/04
This adaptation is a sleek, smartly plotted entertainment, thoroughly engrossing.
01/09/02
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
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
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