Black Rain
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List Price: $9.95
Features
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby
• NTSC
In Theaters : 22 September, 1989
Video Release : 10 June, 1997 |
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Black Rain Customer Reviews
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Andy Garcia, not Adam Garcia!!!
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I spent the past couple of minutes watching this, thinking that I was going to see the very cute guy - Adam Garcia - from Coyote Ugly. Anything's better than Michael Douglas with a very dodgy haircut. (Very dodgy - it's practically a mullet.) Unfortunately, they share the same surname and the same first initial, but Andy & Adam are two very different people. Both very cute though.
I have to say I'm not Michael Douglas's biggest fan (that would be my mother), but I don't spend every second of his screen time wishing he would go away. I'm not that bad. I can watch him.
The film is mindless entertainment, with an interesting title - I have to say I like the idea of black rain. It's a familiar story - bad guy cop, teamed up with reasonably good guy cop, after a bad guy, thrown into the wrong situation and having to struggle out of it. The wrong situation here is in Japan, where the American cops have no say so in what happens. They have to escort Yasuka Matsuda, playing Sato, (who died not long afterwards), and hand him over to Japanese police. Simple right? Not so. Police officer uniforms no doubt hired from the local fancy dress shop are worn, and Sato is handed straight into the hands of his friendly bad guys. Cue much hysteria when the real cops turn up. Oooops!
The film escalates from here, with rigid cop rules, and an unfamiliar place to try and get the bad guy back in the right hands. Unfortunately, Michael Douglas pretty much plays the same character he played in Basic Instinct, so he's uninteresting in that sense. Andy Garcia was not only refreshing, but probably should have got the lead role. Let what happened to him happen to Michael.
Other reviewers have said this cop movie is very eighties, and very cliched. Yes, that may be so, but have these reviewers watched Lethal Weapon recently? That is the number one eighties movie. But Mel's hair is worse.
Black Rain is surprisingly enough an entertaining movie, not really what I was expecting, but still excellent all the same. Prepare to shed a little tear at Michael behind a wire fence thing. |
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