Kaufman's PC adaptation falls awkwardly between the conventions of the Hollywood conspiracy thriller and something intended as more artily significant.
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06/24/06
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
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 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 CriticThe 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
An intelligent and sophisticated screen adaptation of Michael Crichton's bestselling novel
07/12/03
A slick yet pedestrian thriller.
01/01/00
It directs attention not to the internal reasons for America's economic problems, but to inscrutable, generalized, unknown others from abroad, whose yellow skins and strange manners announce their evil purposes as much as their unfair trade practices.
05/20/03
Top CriticThe film disappoints, but Snipes and Connery don't.
12/28/04
The screenplay by Kaufman, Crichton and Michael Backes is not about much of anything important.
01/01/00
Top CriticWhat 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
This adaptation is a sleek, smartly plotted entertainment, thoroughly engrossing.
01/09/02
A 1980s style film adaptation of a Michael Crichton novel.
12/23/04
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
Connery is heaven, and so is the movie.
01/01/00
Top CriticFor all the gloss and high-tech hardware, the mystery just fails to be intriguing.
01/01/00
Kaufman'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
When working in genre territory before, the idiosyncratic Kaufman has shown a marked tendency to debunk or subvert conventions. Playing it straight here, he brings little to the table.
04/09/08
Top CriticWildly improbable (read: typical Crichton) tale about a murder in a Japanese office building.
01/01/00
I found it pretty entertaining, as well as provocative in some of its comments about contemporary life.
04/09/08
Top CriticIt would be nice to see Connery doing something intrinsically interesting instead of trying to make something inherently dull entertaining. And it would be good to see Snipes cut loose more than he is able to here.
11/05/08
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