A typical over-blown Hollywood production.
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01/01/00
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
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
aufman's heavy-handedness and a half-baked script with unfocused performances to match render this unentertaining, vacuous nonsense.
04/09/08
I found it pretty entertaining, as well as provocative in some of its comments about contemporary life.
04/09/08
Top CriticThe screenplay by Kaufman, Crichton and Michael Backes is not about much of anything important.
01/01/00
Top CriticNo review available.
06/11/03
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
No review available.
07/25/02
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
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 1980s style film adaptation of a Michael Crichton novel.
12/23/04
No review available.
06/04/03
Wildly improbable (read: typical Crichton) tale about a murder in a Japanese office building.
01/01/00
Snipes at his coolest still can't save this xenophobic piece of studio flotsam.
05/13/07
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
No review available.
01/23/04
This adaptation is a sleek, smartly plotted entertainment, thoroughly engrossing.
01/09/02
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
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 CriticNo review available.
08/15/02
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